My dad's computer is nothing but a headache, its constantly needing repair or fixing.
My latest issue started in this order:
Dad calls me, says his computer wont start up, it had long repeated beeping after you turn on the computer itself. I looked at the motherboard codes and found out that it was a Video Card problem, I reseated the video card and it worked for a day and went back to the beeping.
Next I installed a new video card, that seems to work for a while so I went to go put the side of the case back on while it was running and i just barely bumped the power cable going into the hard drive when I suddenly hear a click form the hard drive and the computer freezes. That was weird and never seen that before so I restart the computer and touched the power cable again and the harddrive clicked and froze the computer AGAIN. So I unplugged the power cable going into the hard drive and rep[lace it with another one that was free at the time. Restart the computer and tried touching it and everything went fine.. So I seem to have fixed that problem.
NOW after about a day of the computer running fine he calls me and says he they computer screen just goes black, "I hear a click and the computer screen goes black after about 15 minutes of use after the computer has been shutdown for a while. And I have to hit the restart button and it works fine".
This is where Im puzzeled... Could it be the Hard Drive again, the Video Card or the power supply?? ahhhh I picked the wrong thing to study in school for.. *sigh* so many headaches
My latest issue started in this order:
Dad calls me, says his computer wont start up, it had long repeated beeping after you turn on the computer itself. I looked at the motherboard codes and found out that it was a Video Card problem, I reseated the video card and it worked for a day and went back to the beeping.
Next I installed a new video card, that seems to work for a while so I went to go put the side of the case back on while it was running and i just barely bumped the power cable going into the hard drive when I suddenly hear a click form the hard drive and the computer freezes. That was weird and never seen that before so I restart the computer and touched the power cable again and the harddrive clicked and froze the computer AGAIN. So I unplugged the power cable going into the hard drive and rep[lace it with another one that was free at the time. Restart the computer and tried touching it and everything went fine.. So I seem to have fixed that problem.
NOW after about a day of the computer running fine he calls me and says he they computer screen just goes black, "I hear a click and the computer screen goes black after about 15 minutes of use after the computer has been shutdown for a while. And I have to hit the restart button and it works fine".
This is where Im puzzeled... Could it be the Hard Drive again, the Video Card or the power supply?? ahhhh I picked the wrong thing to study in school for.. *sigh* so many headaches