For Gumby

[1UnRaTeD1]

hey gumby i found some parts and some random ram DDR and SDR

the cpu's 3ghz Intel and other i think is at 2ghz amd.. if dat
ill let u know if i run into more parts for your girl to get a pc going. I know the feeling without a pc.
its like living without quake 3???? btw the part's i found today were from recycling place. they say we cant take anything cause its under rulez and they think info might leak out so..to me i act like ok how about something small? lolololol

[DEAN SINSTROM]

I know the feeling without a pc.
its like living without quake 3????

Ditto. My PC crapped out a week ago. All I have up and running at the moment is my netbook.

[dyn]

Damn, i would gladly donate you my older XP1800, but shipping would be 10x more than PC itself. I have this habit of giving older PCs away, to those who need it.

Maybe you could assemble something for cheap, many people are selling stuff. Usually you get most value if you buy entire PC from people who want to get rid of it asap. Don't forget to negotiate a bit.

[Apocalypse]

i offered gumby pc for karen but he said hers just might need PS or has a short in the power button told him i have any parts he needs. and he is less then 100 miles from me shipping would be one day.

[1UnRaTeD1]

yess good to help others who need. i got backup pc but dat 1 i have for important stuff.or just incase kinda thing this guy gave me a tower with 64bit cpu but i dont know what one is bad.. cpu or motherboard and my pc dont support dat kind cpu so im kinda stuck with it until i find out somehow

[DEAN SINSTROM]

Damn, i would gladly donate you my older XP1800, but shipping would be 10x more than PC itself. I have this habit of giving older PCs away, to those who need it.

Thanks. I do the same thing.
If I'm lucky, it might just be the power supply. When I boot up the computer, it goes through all it's checks and tests, but then when the XP logo should be coming on screen, it just stays black. (I've had a similar problem before) I had a whole lot of tools and stuff stolen from me a month or so ago, my multi-meter being among everything, so I haven't had the chance to test it yet. I might have another one at home somewhere to try swapping it out with.

[1UnRaTeD1]

sounds like video card...if its dat i know some cards do dat when they messed up..but can still show stats checks until xplogo and it uses 256 colors then blackout. Check your display adapter and see if u got onboard or already using onboard

[DEAN SINSTROM]

Check your display adapter and see if u got onboard or already using onboard

Tried that. Pulled out my ATI card, and tried using the onboard. It did the same thing.

[Apocalypse]

Check your display adapter and see if u got onboard or already using onboard

Tried that. Pulled out my ATI card, and tried using the onboard. It did the same thing.

Unrated knows his stuff but maybe Dyn, me or someone else can help 2.

please post your system specs dean os version hardware ect.... maybe someone on here mght have an idea for ya.

[1UnRaTeD1]

ok how about sounds when its at the login screen. anyway u can get it to make some sound? u know like when ya log in main but u have to put in pass to log in..and then the welcome sound starts..everyone know u can still input pass without seeing screen

try dat and let me know whats up buddy

[Apocalypse]

ok how about sounds when its at the login screen. anyway u can get it to make some sound? u know like when ya log in main but u have to put in pass to log in..and then the welcome sound starts..everyone know u can still input pass without seeing screen

try dat and let me know whats up buddy

Good idea

[Gumby]

Thanks guys I really appreciate how you all came together to help me and karen out. As you all know, our business is dead and we are barely making the payments on the bills. We just cant afford to buy a new PC now not even a $200 one.

Karen has a dell p4/ht 3.4GHZ 1GB 400/533 DRAM 256MB nVidia video card. I swapped out all the parts I had extra for (power supply, video card, memory, etc) The only things left original are the mobo, processor and HD.

Now what happens is when you turn it on you hear the fans and everythign spinning but the nothing else. You dont hear any HD activity and the monitor does not power up/no signal. At first this would lead me to think the mobo or proc but a weird thing is that the switch wont power the pc off again, you need to switch off at the power supply swicth on the back. And when yuou turn the ps back on the pc often turns itself back on every few hours unless you unplug it. The switch also feels "funny" when you push it but that might be me because now i have it in my head that its the power switch. But because its this dell case, theres absolutley no way to get to the switch without breaking the case apart.

Im gonna try a few more things this weekend and if i still cant it going my friends I will have to beg for one of those pc's you guys want to donate to the poor gumby & karen fund lol. Karen is just about ready to kill me in her sleep she has not quakes in TWO YEARS! and she loves to quake for hours on end for those that remember her.

[1UnRaTeD1]

my sister's son has a pc. i think its a dell uhh 512mb ram ddr i think 20 to 40 gig hdd cpu is a intel at 2ghz maybe..i didnt check it out. last i heard they put it up in closet so if i can get my hands on it were good. they got them selfs a HP 2009 kinda thing the dam thing has 8gig ddr2 running windows 7 ultimate 64 1TB hdd with quad core cpu costing at $900 bucks now i cant even get any games running on it..cause of 64bit. they should of told me to help em pick a pc before they bought it

heres info on the 2 cpu's i have

socket 754 AMD

3400+ 2.00ghz

1.40V // 62 W

L1 Cache Size (KB) 128
L1 Cache Count 1
L2 Cache Size (KB) 256
L2 Cache Count 1
L3 Cache Size (KB) 0

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Socket 775 ??

Socket T LGA775 ??

P4 3.20ghz 800mhz/1MB
====================

2x 128mb sdr sticks

1x 512 ddr400

[Gumby]

the p4 is a perfect fit actually, its the exact specs. I wouldn't need any ram, im pretty sure hers is still good and if not I have 2x256 laying around. If it still has a power supply in it it would save me a lot of time

I could print out a shipping label thru paypal and mail it to you

[=RS=]

There are some really good people here

[dyn]

Sorry to hear about your biz, Gumby. We need to start something new.

Could be many things, maybe just simple switch problem, not PSU or anything serious. But it may require new PC case. If there is an error on MB you usually hear beep(s), which signal where problem occurred. It seems to be something around PSU-MB-connections/voltage, or messed up BIOS settings.

[dyn]

Damn, i would gladly donate you my older XP1800, but shipping would be 10x more than PC itself. I have this habit of giving older PCs away, to those who need it.

Thanks. I do the same thing.
If I'm lucky, it might just be the power supply. When I boot up the computer, it goes through all it's checks and tests, but then when the XP logo should be coming on screen, it just stays black. (I've had a similar problem before) I had a whole lot of tools and stuff stolen from me a month or so ago, my multi-meter being among everything, so I haven't had the chance to test it yet. I might have another one at home somewhere to try swapping it out with.

Try with some Live CD, either live Linux distro or install/repair XP again, with XP CD. If you can't do any of that, then it may be overheating, but that usually shows later, not after cold start. Just in case press Pause and check if CPU settings are OK, you may also want to check inside BIOS settings as well. If you can, run memtest or use something more advanced with many diagnostic tools on it, like UBCD, Isow's MultiBoot (great!) or Hiren's Boot CD (very popular!).

[1UnRaTeD1]

yes lots new things we learn..when u listen to what pc is telling ya..now just to understand it ive ran into lots problems into pc's before with display sometimes or ram, not all the way in..and even ram in but no boot..quick switch and it works fine lol dunno but it just goes nutz and prolly picky.

yes gumby send and ill put the cpu in a mini cpu holder dat my 2.4ghz came in the little case thing plastic sorta thing

good call dyn "live cd" to figure out problem and i was thinking of telling him format "IF" he dont have anything important in pc "DEAN SINSTROM" windows could be curruped and ive seen dat before..many times on my old pc bios stas and all until logo and might just reach login

[1UnRaTeD1]

oh almost forgot... i never used paypal lol Anything specific i need to do if u mail dat shipping to me?

[Infinity]

Thanks guys I really appreciate how you all came together to help me and karen out. As you all know, our business is dead and we are barely making the payments on the bills. We just cant afford to buy a new PC now not even a $200 one.

Karen has a dell p4/ht 3.4GHZ 1GB 400/533 DRAM 256MB nVidia video card. I swapped out all the parts I had extra for (power supply, video card, memory, etc) The only things left original are the mobo, processor and HD.

Now what happens is when you turn it on you hear the fans and everythign spinning but the nothing else. You dont hear any HD activity and the monitor does not power up/no signal. At first this would lead me to think the mobo or proc but a weird thing is that the switch wont power the pc off again, you need to switch off at the power supply swicth on the back. And when yuou turn the ps back on the pc often turns itself back on every few hours unless you unplug it. The switch also feels "funny" when you push it but that might be me because now i have it in my head that its the power switch. But because its this dell case, theres absolutley no way to get to the switch without breaking the case apart.

Im gonna try a few more things this weekend and if i still cant it going my friends I will have to beg for one of those pc's you guys want to donate to the poor gumby & karen fund lol. Karen is just about ready to kill me in her sleep she has not quakes in TWO YEARS! and she loves to quake for hours on end for those that remember her.

Sorry to hear man, from my past issues at the office here, that normally is a Motherboard/Processor problem. In most occasions it was the mb. Hope things start to turn around and gt better for you . At the great Mr. Dirt says Lifes a Garden Dig It, Gotta Keep on Keeping On.

[dyn]

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good call dyn "live cd" to figure out problem and i was thinking of telling him format "IF" he dont have anything important in pc "DEAN SINSTROM" windows could be curruped and ive seen dat before..many times on my old pc bios stas and all until logo and might just reach login

Yes, this is why live or rescue CD/DVD is best. In case of corrupted system you can safely copy as much data as possible before trying to boot it again. In case of HDD problems some are using Spinrite and various undelete utils, but this actually is not the best idea, because each attempt to rescue data from the affected area increases chances more damage will be done. It's best to do low-level copy first with utils like dd_rescue to another HDD, and only after that attempt to recover or format with Spinrite and similar. This is in case of HDD problems, i don't believe Gumby and DS need to do it, but it may be a good idea to check the system from live CD and run diagnostic tools in any case. There are also many Linux rescue solutions, with updated anti-virus and other system utilities.

dd_rescue:
http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/ddrescue/
http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Dd_rescue

Live rescue media:
http://distrowatch.com/
http://www.livecdlist.com/
http://www.sysresccd.org/

[1UnRaTeD1]

speaking of linux i dled up to date mandriva and opensuse 2010 good o/s's i heard debian is good to i might need help on installing wireless card drivers cause when i installed suse it didnt detect Wlan card but my drivers disk has for linux install and i dont know how ((((((

[Apocalypse]

There are some really good people here

We try to be. And in real comminuties people help eachother out. Something most people lack these days....Helping others for nothing except for the simple fact you could help somebody. And TY for the compliment to the Vogon community.

[1UnRaTeD1]

yo gumby where u at buddy?

[Apocalypse]

Ya Gumbo! Where u at?

[Gumby]

sorry guys we're both buried with work. Hope the economy picks up soon, we're running outta cash here lol

[dyn]

"The Economy Is Fucked."

[IJ]

Hey Gumby,
One thing you should check out is the connections from the power supply to the motherboard. The last time I put my computer back together I forgot that the chord for my pwrsw was yellow and the chord for my hdled was red, which is the exact opposite of the connections on the motherboard. I ended up breadboarding it before realizing that I hadn't broken my computer, I was just a dumbass.

Dean,
Have you tried booting it up and then letting it sit on the black screen for a half hour or so? I was having a similar problem with my computer after having gotten a virus and running a boot cleaner cd. Every time I booted I would get to this black screen where I could see the mouse cursor but nothing else. One time, in frustration, I decided to walk away and get some lunch. Came back a half hour later and my desktop was up.

[1UnRaTeD1]

ok gumby ..when ya get time talk to me baby talk to me i got cpu waiting for ya

[fallout]

Dean

This might help. I did some research and found this.

1. Enter Windows XP Recovery Console.

2. When you reach the command prompt, type the following and then press Enter.

fixmbr

3. The fixmbr utility will write a master boot record to the hard drive that you're currently using to boot into Windows XP. This will repair any corruption or damage that the master boot record may have.


4. Take out the Windows XP CD, type exit and then press Enter to restart your PC.

Assuming that a corrupt master boot record was your only issue, Windows XP should now start normally.

Hope this helps.