with power but has no beep, no video and no post

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ashleigh fattade pennan och plitade 2005-09-21 07:32:

> good day to you all!
>
> just wanna ask this problem bout my pc.
>
> you see i've never touched nor opened my cpu for about a month since
> the power trigger got strucked in between but yesterday i managed to
> open the whole cpu

You "opened" the CPU? How?

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ModeratelyConfused wrote:

> "Arne Löfgren" <none@nowhere.org> wrote in message
> news:Bf8Ye.34328$d5.189624@newsb.telia.net...
>
>>ashleigh fattade pennan och plitade 2005-09-21 07:32:
>>
>>
>>>good day to you all!
>>>
>>>just wanna ask this problem bout my pc.
>>>
>>>you see i've never touched nor opened my cpu for about a month since
>>>the power trigger got strucked in between but yesterday i managed to
>>>open the whole cpu
>>
>>You "opened" the CPU? How?
>
>
> When I was in school, the case that contains all the bits 'n pieces of a
> computer was always called the CPU.

Then your school used improper terminology because that isn't correct under
any circumstances. 'System unit' would be acceptable.

> For most non computer literate people,
> the case IS the central processing unit.

Actually, I would imagine that most computer illiterates call it simply
"the computer," which is close enough.

>
> MC

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ModeratelyConfused wrote:

>>"David Maynard" <nospam@private.net> wrote in message
>>news:11j47sck8m3ue31@corp.supernews.com...
>>
>>>ModeratelyConfused wrote:
>>>
>>>When I was in school, the case that contains all the bits 'n pieces of a
>>>computer was always called the CPU.
>>
>>Then your school used improper terminology because that isn't correct under
>>any circumstances. 'System unit' would be acceptable.
>
>
> This was during the time when we were still using typewriters to learn how
> to type, and just recently started to move towards using computers. It's
> possible that the teacher used the term 'System unit', but I was young, and
> I recall only what the books said. It's also possible that the teacher had
> not a clue as to the workings of a computer too, and just went by the books.

Well, back then, a 'CPU' *might* have been a whole 'cabinet' But with a
micro-computer the whole room full of stuff in the one box, not just 'the CPU'.

I remember the Burroughs B-5500. It was 'dual core', it's just that the
cores filled a 6 foot long desk and the disk pack drive was over ---> there
and the memory unit was over <--- there, and the tape drive was over --->
there, and so on, all behind a lovely glass wall so the 'common folk' could
watch what was going on in "the computer room."

The best show was when an operator put a new multi ream pack of paper in
the high speed line printer located at the far end of "the computer room"
and when he hit paper feed to register it...

Well, apparently the top of form switch jammed, or he had misfed it,
because, literally in the blink of an eye and before he could even react to
the surprise, it emptied the entire pack, angle launched like a huge white
cobra streaking straight to the ceiling dead center of the room where it
did a classic physics equal angle reflection bounce (educational), raced
downward at near warp speed and, not having the decency to neatly refold
itself, spawned a mountain of paper on the other side of the room.

By the time he leaped and hit stop the last page of the tail had just
completed it's ceiling bounce and, to add insult to injury, the spectator
gallery applauded with mucho gusto.

>>> For most non computer literate people, the case IS the central
>>>processing unit.
>>
>>Actually, I would imagine that most computer illiterates call it simply
>>"the computer," which is close enough.
>>
>
>
> Everyone once in awhile, when I get a new bit of hardware, I still see the
> term CPU being used to name the case. I'm not arguing, just pointing out.

Could be, because the 'consumerization' of computers proliferates myths and
the misuse of jargon.

When only those mystical 'computer types', you know, the 4 eye white shirts
with black tie and pocket protectors, knew anything about them they
supposedly knew about them but now every Tom, Dick, and Harry is a self
made 'expert'.

>
> MC