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February 11, 2005
Back online!
My new power supply arrived yesterday, and this morning I finally had the chance to put it in. Not a very complicated procedure, I must admit. Mostly just making sure everything's plugged back in.
It was a tense moment as I finally had everything set and all the cables on the back of my computer were reconnected... Would it start up again once I pushed the power button? I had read horror stories online of power supplies dying and taking the motherboard, or other components with them... I pushed the power button and it turned on! But then, rather than hearing the short 'beep' that normally means a normal bootup, I heard one long, then two short beeps. Anytime you turn a computer on and it doesn't beep the way it normally does, that means there's something wrong... Shoot. So I go online and look up what those beeps mean -- they usually are a code to give you a hint as to what's really broken.
It seemed like it was the video card, from a few web pages. (You know, when searching for information like this, I usually find a bunch of pages that are essentially copies of each other... They're facts, so they're not copyrighted, but still - it's frustrating when you're looking for similar information to corroborate what you already suspect but all you can find are copies of what you've already seen...) The good thing, if it was the video card, was that to me, it's not a very crucial part, and I think I even have an extra one somewhere that would work. The bad thing would be replacing one part, and then maybe finding out that I needed to replace more... So I took the card out, didn't see anything obviously wrong, and put it back in, in a different slot just to see if maybe there was a problem with the slot.
And it worked! Yay! So now my computer's back up and running. I'll let it stay on while I'm at school and check up on it a few times just to make sure it's all right. But for now - I claim success.
Sent from: Karl Gutwin
Posted by kgutwin at February 11, 2005 10:00 AM
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