I'm having major trouble with my older Compaq desktop.
I haven't used it in about a month, (my primary computer is my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook). Earlier today I started up the Compaq because I wanted to hook-up dial-up to it and that's where the trouble started. The computer was running super loud and it was VERY laggy. I closed all the programs that I had running, and decided to let it calm down. It never did, so I rebooted and once I got to the desktop screen I received a message stating that there was a bad error when Windows was trying to load. Then all of a sudden the screen went blank and a blue screen explaining something about the error came up for a few seconds (I didn't have a chance to read it, it was gone so quickly.), after that the computer shut off completely.
I tried restarting, but no luck. The stack goes on, it lights up and I'm able to open/close the disk drives and stuff. The monitor, however, isn't going on. When I press the power button, it doesn't turn green, it stays at that copper color light.
I've had trouble with this PC for a long time. Could it be that it died out?
I haven't used it in about a month, (my primary computer is my Dell Inspiron 6000 notebook). Earlier today I started up the Compaq because I wanted to hook-up dial-up to it and that's where the trouble started. The computer was running super loud and it was VERY laggy. I closed all the programs that I had running, and decided to let it calm down. It never did, so I rebooted and once I got to the desktop screen I received a message stating that there was a bad error when Windows was trying to load. Then all of a sudden the screen went blank and a blue screen explaining something about the error came up for a few seconds (I didn't have a chance to read it, it was gone so quickly.), after that the computer shut off completely.
I tried restarting, but no luck. The stack goes on, it lights up and I'm able to open/close the disk drives and stuff. The monitor, however, isn't going on. When I press the power button, it doesn't turn green, it stays at that copper color light.
I've had trouble with this PC for a long time. Could it be that it died out?
