- Jun 28, 2010
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Custom build from 2012 (a friend built it - I kind of looked over his shoulder and pretended to help)
CPU: i5-3450S
MOBO: Asrock H77M-ITX
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600
HDD: WD 1TB Caviar Black
OS: was Win7 Home OEM, but teen daughter inadvertently fell into the free upgrade to Win10 trap last year
OPTICAL: 8x slim internal DVD brn
... packed away in a Silverstone SGO5BB-450 with the propriety 450W PSU and just using onboard graphics (no separate GPU).
Computer was working fine just a week ago – went to turn on computer, and just end up with a black screen with the cursor. BIOS screen would flash on and then disappear rapidly, so I hit some of those suggestions like F11 and whatever but couldn't make any sense of any of the choices and they didn't seem to do much anyway. Ended up eventually just pushing some buttons and now I don't even get a black screen with the cursor… It just won't interact with the screen at all.
Short of disassembling the computer and rebuilding it (which I doubt that will even do anything)… Do you guys have any suggestions? The guy who help me build it - I don't really speak to him a whole lot anymore so that's not really good option. PC powers on just fine… Could it be that the CPU or the hard drive or the RAM has gone bad?
I guess I can find a computer person on Craigslist or something like that if I have to
... I could even just tear it apart and put new parts in it - but that's the more expensive option for something that's probably relatively simple ... but any advice you guys can give would be helpful.
CPU: i5-3450S
MOBO: Asrock H77M-ITX
RAM: Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600
HDD: WD 1TB Caviar Black
OS: was Win7 Home OEM, but teen daughter inadvertently fell into the free upgrade to Win10 trap last year
OPTICAL: 8x slim internal DVD brn
... packed away in a Silverstone SGO5BB-450 with the propriety 450W PSU and just using onboard graphics (no separate GPU).
Computer was working fine just a week ago – went to turn on computer, and just end up with a black screen with the cursor. BIOS screen would flash on and then disappear rapidly, so I hit some of those suggestions like F11 and whatever but couldn't make any sense of any of the choices and they didn't seem to do much anyway. Ended up eventually just pushing some buttons and now I don't even get a black screen with the cursor… It just won't interact with the screen at all.
Short of disassembling the computer and rebuilding it (which I doubt that will even do anything)… Do you guys have any suggestions? The guy who help me build it - I don't really speak to him a whole lot anymore so that's not really good option. PC powers on just fine… Could it be that the CPU or the hard drive or the RAM has gone bad?
I guess I can find a computer person on Craigslist or something like that if I have to
... I could even just tear it apart and put new parts in it - but that's the more expensive option for something that's probably relatively simple ... but any advice you guys can give would be helpful.
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