I am the one with many computers...

[malada]

... which is a good thing since my main system is refusing to boot.

I get lights and fans but no display. Power cycling sometimes makes the CPU fan go WHIRL but other than that no change.

*sigh*

So I spent about 10 minutes swapping my (now secondary) media system and I'm back online again. It's got half the ram, an inferior graphics card but it works.

I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue and probably not the disk drives. I'll have to wait until tonight to do a dead diagnosis.

Life goes on.

-m

Comments

[siliconshaman]

Sounds like a bad Motherboard, at a guess. Either something isn't plugged in right, a RAM stick worked loose, or an actual component on the board itself has failed.

and yeah, I've it happen to me a time or two. I don't think I've ever had an actually new new computer, so I've gotten used to things failing, and fixing or replacing them.

appendium: I did have a very similar failure pattern and it turned out to be a bad PSU. Once. Recommended you check that as a precaution. [mostly because the darn PSU was brand new and I spent three days chasing my tail until I tried that. If I can spare someone else that frustration so much the better.]