R.I.P. Steam Giant's PC

If you were somewhere near the West Midlands in the UK I'd offer to take a look at it for you. But Pennsylvania is too far away, unfortunately. Any techies near Steam Giant that may be able to help him fix it?

 

Oh, I'm sorry to hear about your loss...Did I sound like a condolence???

Anyways, I'm gonna miss you:icon_sad: And I'm very sure that there are alot more people who's gonna miss you as much as I will and more(*hug*)

Glad to hear that you still able to come to here:icon_bigg

 

You would be much, much better off just buying a new computer these days. They're hardly worth repairing. And they've come down hugely in price.

I have an older (4 or 5 years) PC just sitting at my desk at work (it's an old personal machine of mine, totally functional) and you'd be welcome to have it... except for the whole I'm in Vancouver, you're in Pennsylvania thing. It's probably not worth the money to ship it.

But given you're in the States, you should be able to get some sweet deals on a basic PC, right? Like I've seen computers here for $500 or $600 and that includes a monitor most of the time.

 

In the UK there are quite a lot of PCs on eBay that can't run Vista (things like 1.6GHz Celerons with 256MB RAM) and they tend to sell quite cheaply. You've obviously got the gamble of second hand and eBay sellers, but if there is one local enough to pick up for the right price it could be worth going for.

Also subscribe to your local Freecycle email list. Older working PCs turn up on there sometimes, though they go quickly.

 

You could try to clear the CMOS memory. Maybe a wrong configuration is preventing it from working. It is done by changing a jumper's position on the motherboard. Refer to your computer's manual, or motherboard's manual.

The good old Polaris (actually the second Polaris, my old computer), had that problem when I got it. I did that and now it works perfectly (albeit slowly... it's 10 years old and my dad needs XP...)

 

Power supplies are like... $40 bucks? I think that was what I paid last I bought one.

And yeah, power supply issues can cause weird issues.

Maybe try tigerdirect.com?

 

Oh No!!!!! I hope it gets better!:icon_sad:

 

The exact same thing happened to my old computer and the guy at the shop said it was an almost 100% chance that the motherboard decided it didn't want to live anymore. At that stage we had had so many problems with the thing that my family just decided to buy a new one.

 

Yes, it sounds like a motherboard problem more than a power supply problem to me. If the power supply turns on and the fan runs it should be working well enough for the PC to at least start booting.

 

If your computer is as old as you say it is, just buy a new, pre-built one, it will be far less hassle than finding disparate components that may not even work properly.

 

I agree. Have a look at the "Dell Outlet" section of the Dell website. "Outlet" PCs are ones which have been bought and returned, or ones which were made but then they couldn't charge to the credit card so never sent out. Any faults are fixed and they are in as-new condition. They are often 20% or more cheaper than new, and have a full one year warranty (you would need to check the warranty though as they might only be 30 or 90 days in some countries).

We have used several Dell Outlet PCs and they have all been fine. Our current laptops Inspiron 640m machines from Dell Outlet, and they looked like brand new when they arrived. Excellent little PCs!

 

No problem... it's not a big deal because it really wouldn't be worth your while. I seriously echo what the other people here have said: just buy a cheap new one. Doing more than extremely minor repairs on a computer is pointless and a waste of money. You'll end up costing yourself far more in the long run.

 

i hope your new computer will be good. our computer blew up once and we had to get a new one and even a new screen

 

did you got your new computer yet steamgiant???