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[Ron G]

As most know i have no knowledge of these things.but after the storms my computer will not turn on seems like no power is going to the tower,it also fried the dsl modem i took it apart and 2 square things in it was burnt.The computer was on a high quality protector.and thats all that was damaged the power did'nt even go off.any ideas or should i just carry it on the puter dr.

 

[LadyFish]

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Ron, you might have blown the motherboard, just a thought.

 

[rickdb1boat]

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I'd be lookin' at the power supply....

 

[rwise]

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Ron, was the DSL on protection also? If not then the surge likely went through it to the CPU. Is there a network card added, or an on-board? If its an add in card, try removing it. Also with the case open, hit the power and watch the fan/s if they try to go then stop (crowbar condition) the power supply COULD be good, if nothing happens the power supply MAY be dead. Unplug things and try again.

 

[Ron G]

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Everthing was protected,it blew the motherboard dont know weather to speand the 450 bucks for a new cpu and board or wait and get a new puter thanks for the help.

 

[vipzach]

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Originally posted by Ron G:<br /> Everthing was protected,it blew the motherboard dont know weather to speand the 450 bucks for a new cpu and board or wait and get a new puter thanks for the help.

$450 What brand of computer is it? You can buy new ones at walmart and other places for cheaper than that! If it is a fairly new pc, you can buy a new motherboard and processor for under $200 dollars!

 

[rwise]

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Hey Ron, it may be worth while to check out the warrentee on the UPS system, some of them will cover equipment pluged into them! Just a thought

 

[Ron G]

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it was a dell 4 years old,the motherboard and cpu cost 400 bucks they said got 2 different quotes.<br /> Bare with me here i dont know nothing here the wife does all the shopiing,shes getting a dell txp400 with 2 gigs of memory and somekind of suped up harddrive.it will burn dvds and all that stuff,were going to take our memory out of the old one and put it and the harddrive in the new one,does any of this make sence and does it sound like a good computer??and it has some special screen so you can watch movies on it??thanks for the help and info!

 

[LadyFish]

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Originally posted by Ron G:<br /> Everthing was protected,it blew the motherboard

Hmmmm, maybe I'm not such a dumb blonde afterall.

 

[Ron G]

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You was right on the money LF No blonde jokes here Thanks alot for the info,so what ya think about the new one??

 

[LadyFish]

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Originally posted by Ron G:<br /> You was right on the money LF No blonde jokes here Thanks alot for the info,so what ya think about the new one??

Actually, I really don't know anything about computers it was a lucky guess. <br /><br />Ron, we have a 5 year old Dell Dimension with bumped up memory and a big hard drive and its still compatible with everything out there. Mr. Ladyfish runs autocad on it too.<br /><br />It requires a cleaning right now but other than that we are extremely happy with it since we added the XP Operating System. It should keep you happy for a couple of years but thats probably about it.<br /><br />Good luck!

 

[vipzach]

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Ron, that new Dell sounds like a good pc. Check the warranty and make sure it has a decent one. If it only has the 90 day warranty, then get the extended or find something else! You also might need to know what kind of hard drive it has in it, if the new has all SATA drives, then you might not be able to add the old one to it. Also you need to know what kind of RAM the new has and what the old one has, some kinds of RAM do not mix. Post what you find out and we can help you out.<br /><br />edit: Are you sure you didn't mean XPS 400? If so, you won't be able to add the old RAM to it. That pc has DDR2 and you don't have DDR2 in your old machine. They DO NOT mix. According to Dell's web site, it does have SATA hard drives, and has one IDE channel, so you can possibly add the old hard drive to it.

 

[Ron G]

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Yea its the xps400 i had props on the brain.she got a 4 year warranty on everthing,as far as the hardrive the salesperson said it was way to big for what we was going to use it for, but the wife wanted one super fast and that could do anything,i'll let ya know when i find out more, is 2Gigs that much more memory?i didnt think the old memory would be compatible.thanks

 

[vipzach]

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Unless you are doing some really intense things on your computer, 2 gigs of ram is plenty. If you guys just play on the net, read emails and burn cd's, then you definately have planty. Good job on the warranty!