> When shutting down my computer last night I forgot to close the CD door. > The computer shutdown but left the door open. When I tried to reboot > it wouldn't start up. By pushing the door I managed to get the door > closed. > At this point (or before when the computer shut down) there was a > sound like a motor, likely the CD drive motor. This sound wouldn't > stop even though the computer was shutdown. The computer would not > turn on at this point so I unplugged it. I tried several times to > reboot after plugging in the computer but without success. The motor > sound restarted but the computer otherwise remained completely off. > After several tries the motor sound stopped. > The only thing I see now is to bring it to a repair shop. > Can anyone suggest where I should get it repaired that I can reach by > C-train and if necessary bus? > My computer is over 5 years old (2.7G celeron, 768M memory, cost > 600$ in 2004) > but is fast enough for me for the moment. At what repair cost point > does it make sense to just buy a new computer?
... Henrick kindly came by and looked at my computer and determined that the problem was very likely the motherboard. He suggested I buy a used bare bones system cheap from Vfxweb.com and port my components across. Unfortunately they didn't have any system matching mine. So in the end I bought a new system; much faster but not money I wanted to spend right now. C'est la vie. Anyway, though I backed up most of my stuff, there are some things I still would like to get off my old system. Hopefully Vfxweb will eventually get a matching bare bones system that I can buy and install my hard drive onto. Meanwhile if anybody has an old system that I can plug my hard drive into and unload the data I want that would be a great help. My old system has a IDE Parallel ATA hard drive and DVD burner with 512M of PC3330 memory + 256M PC2700 memory. I am hoping to get the old system running so that I can learn how to get the two boxes talking to each other. But if Clug has a good use for it I would be prepared to surrender it. Regards, Ralph (Rocky) Boland _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list clug-talk@clug.ca http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
