desktop computer was fine, turned off for week, now is crashed?

[Guest Daytona Dave]

When i tried to turn on again, it came on, spun up kinda weird, and nothing

would come up...then it would sometimes go to safe mode setup screen for a

few seconds and before you could do anything the entire comp would just shut

back down, or would show the XP logo for a few seconds and then shut down.

The only way i could try and turn it on again was by turning off main power

supply switch and turning it back on and then press button on front of

machine. After that it would shut back down, front switch wont respond til

you cycle the switch on Power supply again. After several attempts at getting

anywhere that way, now no matter what i do, nothing will power up PERIOD. Is

the entire computer junk? I hope you guys can help me as i wasn't keeping up

on saving my pictures to disks, and i have many pics in there, including pics

of mom who passed away in 2005

thanks guys

[Guest Malke]

Re: desktop computer was fine, turned off for week, now is crashed?

 

Daytona Dave wrote:

> When i tried to turn on again, it came on, spun up kinda weird, and nothing

> would come up...then it would sometimes go to safe mode setup screen for a

> few seconds and before you could do anything the entire comp would just shut

> back down, or would show the XP logo for a few seconds and then shut down.

> The only way i could try and turn it on again was by turning off main power

> supply switch and turning it back on and then press button on front of

> machine. After that it would shut back down, front switch wont respond til

> you cycle the switch on Power supply again. After several attempts at getting

> anywhere that way, now no matter what i do, nothing will power up PERIOD. Is

> the entire computer junk? I hope you guys can help me as i wasn't keeping up

> on saving my pictures to disks, and i have many pics in there, including pics

> of mom who passed away in 2005

> thanks guys

 

It is unlikely that the entire machine is "junk" but there is no way to

tell without seeing the machine. It sounds like hardware failure. See

this link for hardware troubleshooting:

 

http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/page2.html#Hardware_Tshoot

 

If the hard drive is physically intact, your data can be retrieved. Pull

the hard drive and either put it in an external drive enclosure or slave

it internally to a working XP machine. Copy your data off and burn to

CD/DVD-R.

 

Standard caveat: Testing hardware failures often involves swapping out

suspected parts with known-good parts. If you can't do the testing

yourself and/or are uncomfortable opening your computer, take the

machine to a professional computer repair shop (not your local

equivalent of BigComputerStore/GeekSquad). Have all your data backed up

before you take the machine into a shop. If you are unable to back up

your data yourself, a good computer repair shop can do this for you. Get

recommendations from friends and colleagues.

 

 

Malke

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