Is My PC Dead?

xRowan · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:42

Okay, so basically a member of my family pulled out the plug of my pc when it was still on. Today I turn it on and nothing shows up on the screen. I turned it off and after a few tries I managed to get this on the screen (below) Is my pc dead? :eek:

Thanks. If it is... Sandybridge here I come!

Blue160 · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:49

Could be a knackered graphics card. If you have onboard graphics or a spare card that would be worth trying as a first troubleshooting step.

On the other hand if this is a good excuse to get a new PC then it's definitely dead

Simon42 · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:51

The equivalent of a power failure is not that likely to kill your PC. If a hard disk is writing at the time you can sometimes get file system corruption or disk damage but it's still not that common.

Have you checked the monitor cable is secure and when you boot what happens exactly? Are there any BIOS beeps, can you hear the hard drive as if it's booting Windows etc?

Baldbloke · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:52

As above. Try reseating the graphics card.

Oh, I see what you mean now. Just spotted the smiley. This could cost up to 20 thousand pounds to fix. Best go Sandybridge.

Tunez · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:53

Looks like a graphics card problem, I remember having a similar problem and it was a faulty graphics card...

xRowan · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:56

Baldbloke said:
As above. Try reseating the graphics card.

Oh, I see what you mean now. Just spotted the smiley. This could cost up to 20 thousand pounds to fix. Best go Sandybridge.

This put a smile on my face

scubes · 6 Mar 2011 at 10:56

is it like this in safe mode?

xRowan · 6 Mar 2011 at 11:01

I cant get anything on the screen. I think I can hear the hdd as I turn it on. The Graphics card fan is spinning.

cammy5477 · 6 Mar 2011 at 11:08

graphics card mate.....i had this with a 8800gtx that i knackered putting a cooling block on it.....

ZZZAC · 6 Mar 2011 at 19:57

use a spare gpu to tes, but if that dont work just go sstraight for the sandy bridge, But dont they still have the sata 3gbps problem?

Cookeh · 6 Mar 2011 at 20:23

ZZZAC said:
use a spare gpu to tes, but if that dont work just go sstraight for the sandy bridge, But dont they still have the sata 3gbps problem?

B3 revision boards are released for some companies now. i.e. ASUS

ZZZAC · 7 Mar 2011 at 17:35

haha, someones bin doing there research