Vista Has Claimed Victim

[sam fisher]

Yesterday I clicked the shut down button in Vista and left my house. Came back to see from the flashing of the green power light that Vista has changed the settings I set back to what it had before and hibertated my PC. Nothing bad about that. Except I can no longer get the PC to boot. I get a no input on the screen. I hear no boot up beep from the pc's internal speaker. I have to hold down the power button to turn it off as a hard reset. The restart button doesnt even restart it. THe scrom drive opens and appears to read, well I get activity from the light.I mean what the fuck has happened.

To me the symptoms seem that Vista has flashed my God damn bios and ruined my pc. I cannot boot to CD either even though my pc is set to do that. Any ideas what has happened?

 

[WarmFluffyUK]

Yesterday I clicked the shut down button in Vista and left my house. Came back to see from the flashing of the green power light that Vista has changed the settings I set back to what it had before and hibertated my PC. Nothing bad about that. Except I can no longer get the PC to boot. I get a no input on the screen. I hear no boot up beep from the pc's internal speaker. I have to hold down the power button to turn it off as a hard reset. The restart button doesnt even restart it. THe scrom drive opens and appears to read, well I get activity from the light.I mean what the fuck has happened.

To me the symptoms seem that Vista has flashed my God damn bios and ruined my pc. I cannot boot to CD either even though my pc is set to do that. Any ideas what has happened?

It's very unlikely vista has damaged or flashed your bios. It's more likely to be coincidence and that your PC has developed a fault. Remove all power from the PC count to 20 then plug it back in, see if that sorts it out. It might be possible that the bios settings have been scrambled by something, most machines have a bios reset jumper on the motherboard, so try that to reset the cmos values.

 

[Nova]

Any ideas what has happened?

You installed a beta operating system on your PC.

 

[sam fisher]

Yesterday I clicked the shut down button in Vista and left my house. Came back to see from the flashing of the green power light that Vista has changed the settings I set back to what it had before and hibertated my PC. Nothing bad about that. Except I can no longer get the PC to boot. I get a no input on the screen. I hear no boot up beep from the pc's internal speaker. I have to hold down the power button to turn it off as a hard reset. The restart button doesnt even restart it. THe scrom drive opens and appears to read, well I get activity from the light.I mean what the fuck has happened.

To me the symptoms seem that Vista has flashed my God damn bios and ruined my pc. I cannot boot to CD either even though my pc is set to do that. Any ideas what has happened?

It's very unlikely vista has damaged or flashed your bios. It's more likely to be coincidence and that your PC has developed a fault. Remove all power from the PC count to 20 then plug it back in, see if that sorts it out. It might be possible that the bios settings have been scrambled by something, most machines have a bios reset jumper on the motherboard, so try that to reset the cmos values.

Thing is as its prebuilt, due to warranty reasons. I can't open it. It has a seal on the inside which tears if you open it. Also it has a sensor Of some sort, which I would not think works while its offline from power but in my dads one it does, which I can reset to case not opened from bios but I cannot get to the bios. Even in the settings are scrambles I would still get a beep I think and I should still get the monitor acknoledging that it is connected to something. This worries me I'll try the power shut off.

Any ideas what has happened?

You installed a beta operating system on your PC.

More stable than and faster than Ubuntu even if its slower than normal lol.

 

[Nova]

Any ideas what has happened?

You installed a beta operating system on your PC.

More stable than and faster than Ubuntu even if its slower than normal lol.

Well blatantly it's not if it has caused this. Your flawed logic makes me laugh, HA!

 

[sam fisher]

scratch all that it worked. I had left it on just sitting there for about 30 mins and still did not work. And the power cut off did it. It now boots. I am going to do the same thing in vista and check that it was just a coincidence and not my hardware having some promlem with it.

 

[sam fisher]

Tested it twice more. Vista is the cause. Its hibernation is what does it to my PC. Also would my pc have not controlled the fans properly and had heat damage while i left it on for that half hour?

Is 41 degrees C too hot for a processor?

 

[Javacat]

That's no where near too hot. My CPU was up to 80 degress C yesterday, but my PC finally cut out when my graphics card hit 90.

Stupid warm weather/crappy fans/bags covering up my computer...



Edit: I just remembered that one of my friends had a similar power problem with vista, when they tried it before christmas. Lets hope they get it sorted for the next release as it's a stupid problem.

 

[sam fisher]

Pretty sure its because of my onboard gpahics. When I get a PCI express graphics card I wont have t oworry about that. This is a £700-800 computer so I worry about damage I am happy asits in warranty till april 2009!

 

[mamewarrior]

Occasionally power supplies need refreshing. Usually you can just turn the machine off, turn the plug off then unplug for 30 or so seconds and press power button a few times [whilst unplugged]. Then re-plug and start the PC... and your away. Trapped charge and all that.

This also occurs for laptop batteries - usually you just hold the power button for a number of seconds and this fixes the problem.

Crap IC design I say.

 

[sam fisher]

No, its nto that as with XP it works fine. Including XP hibernation.

 

[Squidge]

Occasionally power supplies need refreshing. Usually you can just turn the machine off, turn the plug off then unplug for 30 or so seconds and press power button a few times [whilst unplugged]. Then re-plug and start the PC... and your away. Trapped charge and all that.

This also occurs for laptop batteries - usually you just hold the power button for a number of seconds and this fixes the problem.

Crap IC design I say.

I get the same with my TFT's. Sometimes I hit the power button and nothing happens. Hit it a few more times, nothing. Pull the power lead, leave for 10 minutes and try again, still nothing. However, remove power, hit the power switch a few times and *then* plug in the cable, and it springs to life :s

 

[beanfarmer]

apart for the strang thing going on with your pc whats vista like?

 

[Javacat]

Crap.


Although the card games look pritty cool now.

 

[aapje89]

vista sucks.

 

[reallynotnick]

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ge...ing_480x376.mov

:lol:


I just love my Mac.

 

[Shikaku]

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ge...ing_480x376.mov

:lol:


I just love my Mac.

I'm pretty sure if I tried I could get a Mac to freeze and error out just like a PC =)

 

[daclassicgamingmaster]

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ge...ing_480x376.mov

:lol:


I just love my Mac.

I PROPAGANDA!

 

[reallynotnick]

http://movies.apple.com/movies/us/apple/ge...ing_480x376.mov

:lol:


I just love my Mac.

I'm pretty sure if I tried I could get a Mac to freeze and error out just like a PC =)

Thats called trying, not just using your computer normally;

 

[Shikaku]

=/ My Windows PC never crashes in any case anyway, unless the CPU is too hot or I am trying to crash it...