Recent content by DEC_42

Splash Screen is off - but displays no useful information... It just might be the power supply, but I'm not sure if that would explain why I'm able to use the computer now... But the fact that this only happens after shutting the computer down makes it a suspect. Well, the mobo is not...

It's not RAM, guys. Er, I may have been a bit cryptic, but yeah. Trying each stick of RAM by itself did not let me boot. EDIT: By the way, I reset CMOS (draining comp of power, removing battery sort of reset =)), and it still won't work. IncrEDIT: Shut down my comp to re-slot the RAM...

I love you... Anyways... The problem has reappeared. I'm certain now it's not the SATA ports, as I've connected the main HDD to each one, and they fail... I didn't hear any beeps whatsoever and I was having no instability at all with the computer beforehand, either. So, it doesn't...

Well, something very strange just happened - I plugged the HDD back into my computer... and it booted. I wasn't able to change anything since the time of the last post and now, but the computer is working so far.

Nope, no diagnostic lights. Ripped the board from an old HP =P Case doesn't have any, either. Besides, the front display doesn't work, anyways. I'm still stumped, but I welcome any and all suggestions.

To answer the questions proposed: Can't be MBR - won't boot that far... It's all right - people don't really need the full 4GB most of the time. I do RAM intensive stuff like playing SupCom, compiling code, and other things. It is indeed still chkdsk, but the chkdsk scan turned up clean...

I attempted to boot up my computer this morning after shutting it down last night (first time in a while, I might add), but mid-boot, the computer rebooted, and I found myself looking at the POST again. I found that Windows had not even loaded, so for those of you who suggest Safe Mode...

Eh, I think the media over there's just looking for something to report. Not much really exciting happening nowadays, unless of course, Obama gets stabbed. (a symbolic meaning in that, too, a cookie to who gets it) I mean, that's what I've surmised from what I've read and heard about the...

He would immediately go find the Black Knight If the next person were to wake up next to a shrubbery...

Who will lose its hair due to the hair-dryer radiation, unless you can retrieve the pills from...

He would use one for ping-pong If the next person were to wake up as a burnt spy...

The anti-juggling array. To further your uses of this array, you must detach...

Gibbed

Well, I doubt most American audiences would have heard of a legend such as Mears. I don't think they'd know what a chav is either, to tell you the truth.

Well, just get a retail CPU. Less involvement with Thermal paste. If anything, just get a really cheap computer with a new board supporting DDR2, a PCI-E slot, and a LGA\PGA (Intel) socket that will slot in a multi-core processor. I got one for $500 for my brother. He's not going to use more...