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post #21 of 26
6/15/10 at 2:51pm
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Here I be yet again.. This time I have a freezing problem, and I know this thing is on its last legs. So my last post was four months ago.. And it had been working fine, despite the way I had to boot it up.

So there was a power surge last night and it shut down everything, my 7700 was plugged into the surge protector, so I figured No problem!

I boot it up as usual, post works, goes through the login screen, the desktop's there, I'm thinking everything is ok.. then after a minute, the computer just stops, cursor frozen, the kittle rectangular green light lit up.

I'm guessing now: Hardware failure, except the hard drive seems to work.... since I can get to the desktop & everything.

I'd like to get it working again if that's even possible, since I have some important school-related things on it I hadn't put on a XD yet. Any ideas what the problem could be?

I re-applied thermal gunk , cleaned out the minor dust bunnies, and reset the CMOS - nothing. Now, I haven't reseated the RAM sticks and I'm about to do that now. The GPU I haven't touched.

Feel free to reply to this bumped-from-4mo.s ago post!

Thank you,

Steve
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post #22 of 26
6/15/10 at 3:35pm
You are on the right track about testing out the ram modules. Swap them around, using one at a time ...

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post #23 of 26
6/15/10 at 4:17pm
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Oh, i took out the sticks that came with the system, and put in the two sticks of HyperX I ordered a couple months ago, it didn't boot up, so I just took the HDD out and tested it on another PC. Hard Drive's fine, but I fear my 7700 is just a giant 12lb paperweight now...

Well, I don't know what to do at this point... can't part it out since something's obviously failing. Thank you for the quick reply qhn as always!
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post #24 of 26
6/15/10 at 4:19pm
Can you boot into an installation CD and work from there? Try with a Linux LiveCD

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post #25 of 26
6/15/10 at 4:54pm
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Hmm a Linux Live-CD. I would need to be able to make a CD, and this computer I have is just a netbook with no optical drive.. Once the loaner returns I might have to give that a go, thank you for the suggestion!

Regards,

Steve
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post #26 of 26
6/15/10 at 4:59pm
Good luck Steve.

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