Recent content by sctakeshi

S
PC suddenly won't POST

Okay, so I removed the motherboard from the chassis and disconnected everything, including RAM. I then set the motherboard on top of the chassis, connected main ATX power, power switch, and PC speaker pins. Pressed power button, CPU heatsink fan spins up but no beeps. To cut power (the CPU...
- sctakeshi
- Post #6
- Sep 14, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
S
PC suddenly won't POST

Thanks for the help so far. It's very strange that I don't get any beep error codes. The case (Chieftec Dragon) did come with a PC speaker which is connected to the motherboard and until now it would always make a single beep as it successfully POSTed. Now I get no beeps. It seems like it...
- sctakeshi
- Post #4
- Sep 13, 2009
- Forum: Computer Building
S
PC suddenly won't POST

All of a sudden my PC locked up in the middle of web browsing. I hard-powered it off, and when turning it back on it would no longer POST. I do not get any kind of feedback whatsoever. No video signal, no keyboard lights, no PC speaker beeps. However, everything seems to have power. I can...
- sctakeshi
- Thread
- Sep 10, 2009
- Replies: 5
- Forum: Computer Building
S
STOP 0x000000A5

Okay, I feel like an idiot, but I found the problem. An SD card inserted in my SanDisk USB card reader was causing the error. Removing it caused the system to boot fine. Just posting this in case it ever helps anyone else down the line.
- sctakeshi
- Post #2
- Dec 18, 2008
- Forum: Computer Building
S
STOP 0x000000A5

This morning upon booting up my main computer, I was greeted by Windows with a blue screen and the aforementioned STOP message, which has to do with BIOS not being ACPI compliant. The computer booted fine yesterday and I did not change the BIOS (nor did I make any hardware or software changes)...
- sctakeshi
- Thread
- Dec 18, 2008
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Got my leg warmer back :P

I love building cheapo computers! Of course, mine usually have no video card (just onboard) since they will never be used for gaming and often won't even be used by me! ELHAYM - Built for my parents in late 2004: Athlon XP Barton 2500+ 512MB Kingston PC2700 Asus A7V8X-MX SE Samsung 80GB...
- sctakeshi
- Post #14
- Mar 28, 2006
- Forum: CPUs and Overclocking
S
Failure to Turn on PC

I've heard bad things about the Antec Neo supplies (the first one he mentioned) but never anything bad about their TruePower line.
- sctakeshi
- Post #7
- Mar 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Problems with IP Printing - Missing Registry Key in XP Pro

Well what I have in mine (HKLM\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\Print\Monitors\S tandard TCP/IP Port) is a String called Driver with the value tcpmon.dll Beneath that, in the Ports subtree I have two DWORDS: StatusUpdateEnabled and StatusUpdateInterval. The first is a hex 1, and the second is a...
- sctakeshi
- Post #2
- Mar 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Windows XP Pro - I just lost my account

If your working account is an administrator, you can take ownership of the old my documents. To do this you may have to disable simple file sharing. Open up any folder, go to Tools>Folder Options>View and uncheck "Use simple file sharing" (at the bottom) Nowe right click on your old my...
- sctakeshi
- Post #3
- Mar 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Failure to Turn on PC

Can you smell anything burning? I just had a similar problem, and it was a fried CPU.
- sctakeshi
- Post #2
- Mar 27, 2006
- Forum: Computer Building
S
CPU Usage Spiking by no identifiable process

Just today after installing Office and GoBack on my laptop (recently reformatted with Win2000 Pro), the CPU usage began rising, causing higher temperatures and perpetual fan activity. But in Task Manager there is no process generating this usage! Click here for picture In this picture you...
- sctakeshi
- Thread
- Mar 27, 2006
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Good case

Under $50: Athenatech A747 - essentially toolless case. Integrated drive rails (you don't even have to screw railsto your drives. Just slide them into the pre-rail-equipped bays and lock them with the lever). Very cool. Awesome for the price. Includes a pretty good 300W supply (unlike the...
- sctakeshi
- Post #21
- Mar 25, 2006
- Forum: Cases & Cooling
S
Delayed write failed: Bad hard drive or bad controller card?

The problem with my F: drive started when I was trying to render a Quicktime file in Premiere. I had rendered tons of movies before this point, but now it just failed in the middle, and I got a "Delayed write failed" error, as seen here: http://www.chadypu.com/escee/delayed_write_failed.JPG...
- sctakeshi
- Thread
- Jun 10, 2005
- Replies: 2
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Does this indicate a dead hard drive?

Cables seemed okay. I made sure they were seated properly. Drive seems to be getting power, since it POSTs and is seen by BIOS. It's on the same IDE cable as my second HDD, which can be accessed fine (I can read data from it). So I tried to do a Repair, but Windows can't seem to access the...
- sctakeshi
- Post #4
- Feb 3, 2005
- Forum: Computer Building
S
Does this indicate a dead hard drive?

All of a sudden, everything started going really slow, and then all my applications began to soft-freeze. When ev eventually I just got fed up, I turned the computer off and was confronted with the message: Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device and...
- sctakeshi
- Thread
- Feb 2, 2005
- Replies: 3
- Forum: Computer Building

RESOURCES

Top Bottom