cleaning cat hair will do that almost every time.
fp
At 10:02 AM 7/1/2014, DSinc Poked the stick with:
Just to wrap-up the thread I started about things I needed to
understand to help my
OB upgrade his old Athlon 64/Gigabyte m/b PC from WinXP to Win8.1pro.
The mechanical bits went quite well. His new 128GB SSD got installed
and cabled.
He removed his old 160GB XP EMHD. All his data was backed up.
Yesterday morning OB powered off his PC to vacuum out all cat hair,
install his new
4GB of RAM,and, double check all his cabling. He completed all this
and then called me
do the actual power back on, and install of W8.1pro. The PC failed
to power back on and
complete POST. The infamous Black Screen presented itself, but, the
cooling fans in the PC
were running (OK, +12v was alive), but the m/b remained essentially
dead. The optical drive
with the install DVD pre-loaded failed to do anything. We
comiserated. I mentioned that this
was a possibility. That did not ease his anger.
OB decided to contact a local resident of his new neighborhood
complexwho does PC diagnosis/repair
and SW install for members of the neighborhood.
OB called this AM and said his new diagnosis confirmed a newly dead
PC m/b................... :(
So, OB is now shopping a new desktop PC(believe with an Intel
Core-i5 processor).
He is looking at Dell. I will share what he eventually chooses.
I truly appreciate all the help the Collective shared during this
really intense (for me) period of trying to
do a long-distance upgrade that ultimately failed. No harm, no foul.
Just a bad roll of the dice.
Thankyou,
Duncan
Date: Tuesday, July 1st, 2014
***Caution Tagline Below***
**Tallyho**
*******************************************
Everyone thinks everyone else has money.
*******************************************
