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Monitor won't switch ona fter defragging
I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk,
soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years I have had the comp it usually solves itself if I leave the comp switched off for a few hours but it has been two days now and it still does the same flashing of the monitor, I changed monitors and I had a 1 sec screen then that monitor went off into a flashing only mode, it looks like something in the comp is being opverheated the fan is working ok I opened it up could defragging a 54MB hard disk cause the comp to overheat? and since it defragged only 2% and crashed are all my hard disk files corrupted and unrecoverable? I have a 412 MB ram 54 Gig hard disk celeron 1500MHz athlon processor from time computers. |
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Jul wrote:
I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk, soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years Unless you have ECC memory bad memory or soft-memory errors have probably caught up with you. First test your memory thoroughly. Then repartition and format your hard disk. Then reinstall everything from the CD's or other original media. If possible replace your memory with ECC memory and enable it. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk, soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years Unless you have ECC memory bad memory or soft-memory errors have probably caught up with you. First test your memory thoroughly. Then repartition and format your hard disk. Then reinstall everything from the CD's or other original media. If possible replace your memory with ECC memory and enable it. i'd advise *against* repartitioning and formatting if there's data on the drive that's needed. of course, if there is a ram problem it should be corrected first thing to do for a win9x system is run scandisk C: from a bootfloppy or chkdsk /f from the repair console if win2k /XP if the data is still there but windows is inoperative an install over should do the job |
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"Jul" wrote in message om... I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk, soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years Do you get anything when you switch it on? Do you see the BIOS screen/memory count, etc.? If not, you've got a hardware failure and it's 99% coincidence that it happened during a defrag. If you get the boot screen, mem count, etc. but the Windows screen never appears try starting in safe mode (tap the F8 key during the setartup memory count and don't stop until you see the start menu). Might have just messed up the display settings and once in safe mode you can correct them. You didn't mention OS, so troubleshooting from there would vary - DOS boot disk if you HDD is FAT (Win9x or ME) to see if files are still there. |
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philo wrote: (and removed attributions - don't do that)
I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk, soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years Unless you have ECC memory bad memory or soft-memory errors have probably caught up with you. First test your memory thoroughly. Then repartition and format your hard disk. Then reinstall everything from the CD's or other original media. If possible replace your memory with ECC memory and enable it. i'd advise *against* repartitioning and formatting if there's data on the drive that's needed. of course, if there is a ram problem it should be corrected first thing to do for a win9x system is run scandisk C: from a bootfloppy or chkdsk /f from the repair console if win2k /XP if the data is still there but windows is inoperative an install over should do the job The point is that (assuming the memory fault) after any copying, and especially any defragging, the data on that disk is extremely likely to be faulty. Repartitioning and formatting will get rid of it all. I wouldn't save anything that is not in text form, so I can easily inspect it. I would only make an exception for files protected with my validate program, or the equivalent. Again, such protection is too late now, as are any backups made after the memory first faulted. validate can be found on http://cbfalconer.home.att.net/download/ -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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The point is that (assuming the memory fault) after any copying, and especially any defragging, the data on that disk is extremely likely to be faulty. Repartitioning and formatting will get rid of it all. I wouldn't save anything that is not in text form, so I can easily inspect it. portions snipped i've worked on a few machines where the memory had failed if the memory was replaced prior to any attempt to 'repair' the system... most of the data was still good OTOH: if 'repairs' were attempted with the bad memory still in the machine then there were usually major problems... so in light of that it seems it best to run a memory test *first* |
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philo wrote:
The point is that (assuming the memory fault) after any copying, and especially any defragging, the data on that disk is extremely likely to be faulty. Repartitioning and formatting will get rid of it all. I wouldn't save anything that is not in text form, so I can easily inspect it. portions snipped i've worked on a few machines where the memory had failed if the memory was replaced prior to any attempt to 'repair' the system... most of the data was still good OTOH: if 'repairs' were attempted with the bad memory still in the machine then there were usually major problems... so in light of that it seems it best to run a memory test *first* If you look at the original posting, the visible symptoms had appeared before, and the total deadness appeared in the midst of a defrag. I wouldn't trust that machine with your 10 foot pole. Yes, the memtest comes first, if he is capable of it. He probably doesn't even have a floppy prepared for it. -- A: Because it fouls the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail? |
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If you look at the original posting, the visible symptoms had appeared before, and the total deadness appeared in the midst of a defrag. I wouldn't trust that machine with your 10 foot pole. Yes, the memtest comes first, if he is capable of it. He probably doesn't even have a floppy prepared for it. since the OP posted from a working machine there's a chance at any rate...a bootdisk can be found at www.bootdisk.com they also have a link to the memtest utility IIRC it's called memtest86 |
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"Noozer" wrote in message news:qmFwc.683513$oR5.202055@pd7tw3no...
"Jul" wrote in message om... I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk, soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years Do you get anything when you switch it on? Do you see the BIOS screen/memory count, etc.? If not, you've got a hardware failure and it's 99% coincidence that it happened during a defrag. If you get the boot screen, mem count, etc. but the Windows screen never appears try starting in safe mode (tap the F8 key during the setartup memory count and don't stop until you see the start menu). Might have just messed up the display settings and once in safe mode you can correct them. You didn't mention OS, so troubleshooting from there would vary - DOS boot disk if you HDD is FAT (Win9x or ME) to see if files are still there. It is a hardware problem, the monitor comes on a split second when I switch the comp and then the monitor goes off, I have changed the monitor and it does the exact same thing so I suspect it is a hardware problem, it has however been doing this on and off for the last 4 years, I usually just let the computer be for few hours and then the monitor works when it is switched on again, notably the fan makes a slightly different sound after this. I am on winxp 54gig hard drive 512 MB ram 1500mhz celeron processsor, I am unable to load a boot disk or have access to any files on the comp as the monitor will not switch on it flashes for a second and then goes off flashing on some monitor makes and just stays off on others so I don;t think it's a software problem |
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It could be a bad hard drive.
It could also be overheating the CPU. If a CPU runs hot OK normally it will only give up when the computer is made to work harder like during a Defrag or some other intensive operation. You were given warning signs and you chose to ignore them! Too bad you were too stupid to get a new hard drive. Jul wrote: I was on a wesite and it suggested that I defragged my hard disk, soion after I started defragging at round about 2% gthe computer crashed, when I rebooted the monitor would just flash but nothing would be shown on the monitor it has done this one and off within the 4 years Unless you have ECC memory bad memory or soft-memory errors have probably caught up with you. First test your memory thoroughly. Then repartition and format your hard disk. Then reinstall everything from the CD's or other original media. If possible replace your memory with ECC memory and enable it. |
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