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Computer Won't Start Up
Octopus Melody
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So I woke up the other morning to my PC, running Windows Vista, frozen during the screensaver. I turned it off and back on and it never started up. The fans run, and a sound is coming from the floppy disk drive, as if it's trying to read a disk repeatedly. The blue light on the front flashes too. It doesn't send any sort of signal to my monitor.
Now I'm personally pretty clueless about computers, but I opened it up and noticed there was a connection with green and white wires coming from the harddrive that wasn't connected to anything, and something it could plug into coming out of the power supply. Is that supposed to be plugged in and it came loose? Bit too scared to try it without knowing.
If that's not the case, any idea how I can fix this? If it's a whole lot of trouble, I may just get a new PC since I have the spare cash and could get a better one.
Now I'm personally pretty clueless about computers, but I opened it up and noticed there was a connection with green and white wires coming from the harddrive that wasn't connected to anything, and something it could plug into coming out of the power supply. Is that supposed to be plugged in and it came loose? Bit too scared to try it without knowing.
If that's not the case, any idea how I can fix this? If it's a whole lot of trouble, I may just get a new PC since I have the spare cash and could get a better one.
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(if you're feeling technically-minded I'd tell you to start try to diagnose the source of the problem by testing the barebones setup - motherboard with 1 stick of ram, CPU, GPU, PSU, fan - just to see if it boots.)
Don't play with that harddrive wire; your computer should be able to start without said harddrive, so if it isn't, the problem isn't the harddrive either.
It is certainly possible for a powersupply to be able to give power to the fans and a few leds but not have the power the motherboard and CPU, not to mention the video card.
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