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30. juni 2016 - 18:27 Der er 5 kommentarer og
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PC will refuse to start

Hello Guys,

I''m at my mother's house since her computer does not start.

She got a five-year-old PC Packard Bell, windows Vista.

The fan start's for a couple of seconds, sometimes 10 seconds sometimes 15.
Sometimes I get 1 beep sometimes 2 beeps.

The screen does not show anything.

Do you got ant clue what might be wrong?

I guess she might have turn off the PC with the on/off button a lot of times instead from the OS.

Best regards
Fredrik
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30. juni 2016 - 19:39 #1
Unplug all power to the pc.(battery and power supply/cable).
Press an hold power button down in 30 seconds.
Reconnect power cable and battery and try to start pc.
Avatar billede fredand Forsker
02. juli 2016 - 15:22 #2
Hello!
Thanks for your suggestion, unfortenately it semester like it did not help.
I tried holding down the button for like 60 sec.
I also tried switch the RAM slots and disconnect the dvd-player.
I only get a beep followed by two beeps before it turné off.
To me it Looks like it might be the harddrive that is malfuncture.
What do you think?
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02. juli 2016 - 17:21 #3
Maybe. If you disconnet the drive, appers "insert boot disc" on the screen, whwn you boot the pc?
If you don't get this message  the motherboard could be the problem as well.
Avatar billede fredand Forsker
04. juli 2016 - 08:02 #4
Hello again!
I disconnected the harddrive and then I got the packard Bell logo and the possibility to enter the bios. But as before, the Pc shuts down in a couple of seconds.
To me this looks like either a malfuncture moteherboard or a malfuncture powebutton.
I remember a old TV that behavied like this and that was because of a malfuncture powerbutton.
What do you think?
Best regards
Fredrik
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04. juli 2016 - 17:27 #5
Do your pc have et reset button?

The reset button has the same funktion as the power button, and normaly you don't use the reset button.
If you find where the cables are connetted to the motherboard, you disconnect the reset cable and put the power on cable on the reset button. Now you should be able to use this button to start the pc.
Avatar billede fredand Forsker
06. juli 2016 - 22:36 #6
Hello!
No, I can not find any reset button.
I actually sent an email to the Packard Bell support and also asked them if they got any suggestions.
I will get back with what they answer.
Best regards
Fredrik
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08. juli 2016 - 07:44 #7
Hello!
The support answered that the Pc is too old to repair, it is much cheaper to buy a new one.
I of course need the data on the harddrive.
What do you think guys could I just fit the harddrive into another pc (not from packard Bell) and it will boot up (unless it is the harddrive that is broken)?
Best regards
Fredrik
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08. juli 2016 - 13:13 #8
If you put it in a desktop pc the drive could be connected as a slave drive, so you boot up on the original drive that is in the computer. Maybe you shall go in disk management at give the disk a letter so Windows can see it.
A harddisk dock and or a sata/ide adapter  can be used too to connect to another pc.
Avatar billede fredand Forsker
10. maj 2017 - 08:57 #9
Hello guys!
Sorry for late feedback.
Thanks for all help.
I remember correct I manage to reboot the Pc from a linux install cd (run from cd) connect to my wifi and copyright some files to a external harddrive. Finnally I bild a "new" pc for my Mother with linux mint.
Se seems Happy with it.
Best regards
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