Pesky PC - random shutdowns *shakes fist* - wha'gwan?
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Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
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hiraethified
I haven't but I have kept it pretty clean and there's no big piles of dust I can see anywhere.
In desperation, I'm loading up my ancient desktop, And it runs XP. Oh my Lord.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
My HD5770 came back from the dead after a proper clean out with compressed air. It was fairly dusty though.
But cleaning out the fans with compressed air isn't going to harm it, and a can costs about 6 quid, so it's worth a punt.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Heh even I wouldn't throw that one at him on a thread like this but it did bring the lulz.
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hiraethified
The fans were smooth and hurtling along at a fair old rate and to be honest, the machine has been wobbling for some time so I'm not too unhappy about replacing it - I've had an awful lot of use out of it.
That said, if anyone has a video card (pref with two digital outputs) that they can spare I could at least give it go.
Wow. My old machine is pre-Chrome!
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hiraethified
Can you fuck off as well please because you're just being an annoying, unhelpful twat with nothing to useful to offer.Heh even I wouldn't throw that one at him on a thread like this but it did bring the lulz.
Thanks.
elbows
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How old is the XP era machine? Admittedly there is quite some chance your older machine has an AGP card rather than a PCI-E one, I think the switchover didnt really get going till 2004 and took some years.
elbows
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Chances are you might see AGP written quite large on the XP machines motherboard above or below the graphics slot if its the older type that isnt going to work in your newer machine.
If that fails to provide an answer then remove the card briefly from the old machine and if its pins looks like the bottom picture rather than the top one, give up and put it straight back. Or identify the mainboard and look up its graphics slot type. Sorry if this is all rather obvious to you already.
If that fails to provide an answer then remove the card briefly from the old machine and if its pins looks like the bottom picture rather than the top one, give up and put it straight back. Or identify the mainboard and look up its graphics slot type. Sorry if this is all rather obvious to you already.
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hiraethified
Cheers for that - I'l take a look in the morning. Its unfortunate that this has happened at the point where my Drobo back up machine stopped working two weeks ago and the fuckers at CrashPlan cloud back up managed to lose my entire back up.
The hard drive on my knackered PC seems fine, and I've got the important stuff backed up on another drive.
It's at times like these I can see the appeal of something like a Chromebook machine: plug a replacement one in and all your apps and files are ready to be accessed.
The hard drive on my knackered PC seems fine, and I've got the important stuff backed up on another drive.
It's at times like these I can see the appeal of something like a Chromebook machine: plug a replacement one in and all your apps and files are ready to be accessed.
Until your cloud data provider loses your data, as Crashplan lost your backup.
With 4 TB drives now at semi-reasonable prices, you should take another look at Windows Home Server 2011, with its nifty backup and bare metal restore facility.
stuff_it
Too skool for cool
You're right, so they can stitch him up for mac care or just laugh in his face when it goes wrong...cakcling whilst whipping out a £400+ bill just for parts, etc.
joustmaster
offcumdun
You should really do this.
its the built in diagnostic package from dell, that will check all your hardware.
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hiraethified
I had a nice shiny Drobo that was doing just that.
ohmyliver
poppin' like a cork
What I found was that the overheating card was causing the machine to shut down due to the small case and the additional heat. The fans seemed to be smooth, but were going full blast (I was quite tempted to see if the resultant noise harmonized with a hoover, and 'Isn't Anything' by My Bloody Valentine). I tried the compressed air because I'm tight, and due to the potential of our family increasing by 50% in size, it would have been a whole world of wife based recrimination hurt if I'd brought a new pc.
Puddy_Tat
naturally fluffy
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I suppose we've established that there isn't a basic graphics card on the MOBO itself ?
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hiraethified
I've already downsized to one monitor as I'm now using my vintage XP machine, so I'm not downsizing even further.
Truth is, the warning signs of the PC's demise have been happening for months, so it's come as no surprise that the thing has finally conked out. I've had good service out of it though so I'm not really complaining.
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
Ax^
Silly Rabbit
well you've handed it a little better than i did last time i had a desktop which was being problomatic
my solution was to take a claw hammer to it
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Ted Striker
Foot's on the other hand
Tax deductible too...Win win!
gentlegreen
I hummus, therefore I am ...
I actually had to rebuild an oldish machine yesterday - old machine to fit the old IDE hard drive from the PC that died, XP because the software was THAT old ... I shall probably find out tomorrow that the software won't run on the (barely) dual core CPU ...
Amazing how quickly you forget how to do stuff ...
Amazing how quickly you forget how to do stuff ...
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