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PC Meltdown
Posted: 16 Mar 2011, 10:56
by austerdriver
Well my main flightsim PC has decided to stop working. It's been giving me problems for the last month or so...
Thats the end of me flight simming till I can afford a new PC.
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 16 Mar 2011, 11:04
by Garry Russell
Bad new Jimm
...Sorry to hear that.
I thought you had just had some sort of new system??
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 16 Mar 2011, 19:12
by austerdriver
It was a barebones system with just the motherboard, PSU and case.
Had to add all of the other parts to make everything work.
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 16 Mar 2011, 19:40
by Garry Russell
OH dear!
..so what actually broke??...what problems were you getting?
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 01:47
by Kevin Farnell
Sorry to hear of your PC trauma, Jimm.
But as Garry says, list your PC specs along with the problems you have encountered and I'm sure that the knowledge held by the forum members can come up with a solution.
Regards
Kevin
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 10:05
by austerdriver
Haven't really had much time to look into whats going on as such.
Put in a different PSU and it will not boot at all. Looks like it could be the motherboard.
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 10:06
by Garry Russell
Yeah OK, but what problems were you getting over the past few weeks??
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 10:15
by austerdriver
Looks like a capacitor on the board has bulged and started leaking.
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 10:29
by Garry Russell
Sounds almost like a lot of power was going in toit and not comming out
Re: PC Meltdown
Posted: 17 Mar 2011, 10:33
by austerdriver
Garry Russell wrote:Sounds almost like a lot of power was going in toit and not comming out
Not sure.