So I and a friend were at my place, about to lay down a track using my computer and his recording hard/software, when he pulled the tower out and the computer suddenly shut off, and I haven't been able to turn it on ever since.
Now, I can still hit the button, and the computer will start running; the fans will blow, the drives will spin, etc, but it does not communicate with the monitor at all. It is very similar to problems I used to have with my monitor, where I would move it the wrong way and the power cord would slip out, and I would have to fiddle with it to get it to work right again.
I have gotten differing opinions on what the problem is: my workmate, who is an expert PC builder and gamer, thinks it is a faulty cable; the reason he cites for this is that, once the tower is turned on, the monitor light will turn from orange (idle) to green (active) for a split second, then turn back to orange.
I rode over to a local computer shop and the guy said that he thinks it's the mobo, because "98% of the problems" he finds are because of motherboard issues.
My friend who was here the night it died insists that the problem "can be nothing other than the driver," but he doesn't know much about PC's and he has been contradicted by both of my other sources.
I really have no idea what it is, but I can tell you it ISN'T the monitor, because when I disconnect it and turn it on the little color box shows up and floats around. I don't see any reason it should be like this, though; everything turns on and acts like it's working, but the monitor appears to be getting no signal from the tower. And all he did was bump the thing.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to be building my own, brand-new PC (see my other topics), but between then and there I'd like to not have to borrow laptops from friends and family members, cuz I really hate laptop keyboards.
Now, I can still hit the button, and the computer will start running; the fans will blow, the drives will spin, etc, but it does not communicate with the monitor at all. It is very similar to problems I used to have with my monitor, where I would move it the wrong way and the power cord would slip out, and I would have to fiddle with it to get it to work right again.
I have gotten differing opinions on what the problem is: my workmate, who is an expert PC builder and gamer, thinks it is a faulty cable; the reason he cites for this is that, once the tower is turned on, the monitor light will turn from orange (idle) to green (active) for a split second, then turn back to orange.
I rode over to a local computer shop and the guy said that he thinks it's the mobo, because "98% of the problems" he finds are because of motherboard issues.
My friend who was here the night it died insists that the problem "can be nothing other than the driver," but he doesn't know much about PC's and he has been contradicted by both of my other sources.
I really have no idea what it is, but I can tell you it ISN'T the monitor, because when I disconnect it and turn it on the little color box shows up and floats around. I don't see any reason it should be like this, though; everything turns on and acts like it's working, but the monitor appears to be getting no signal from the tower. And all he did was bump the thing.
Anyway, I'm definitely going to be building my own, brand-new PC (see my other topics), but between then and there I'd like to not have to borrow laptops from friends and family members, cuz I really hate laptop keyboards.