Computer Crash OMG

[Ginger]

Yesterday night after the tavern event i shut down my computer as ussual and went to bed. This morning i woke up and tried to turn it on, but hmm it didnt! I press the on button and then all i get is the lights showing that it has powerm lets say it tries to start up for one second and then just freezes. I dont got anything visible happening on my monitor as that has not been started up yet.

Could seem like im out of busness for some while Anyone got an idea what it could be?

PLEASE HELP!!!!

[Gimbly]

Sounds nay good .. Could be everything from the power supply to harddisc, rams,  overheat caused by dust and blocked fan (cpu , board, grafikcard) or simply the grafikcard itself.. You hear some peep tones
when the computer tries to start up ? normaly these peeps give ya a diagnostic in a case of a defective
hardware.. (depending on maibboard type )

[Ginger]

No no sound at all... nothing just the stupid fan is turning and some lights are on...

[Gimbly]

Well if there is no sound at all , i would recommend to unplug the thing and open it ..have a short look inside. Maybe you see/smell the defect hardware at once (dust, blocked fans, melted cables , chips,
etc or maybe lose parts (grafikcard)) or maybe if ye turn it on opened and you have diag leds on your
board to track down the problem.  You could also disconnect the ide (or scsi, serial ata whatever
you are using) cable from your harddisk and see if your pc will boot the bios till it prombts:
No system disk found ( in that case your hardrive is down due to a headcrash or bad sectors ...)
If you have a second grafikcard try that one

[Ginger]

The problem is that it stops before it gets to connect to my monitor, i opend it and everything seems fine.... Argh i hate computer!

[Gimbly]

well here are a few diag methodes to have a look at

http://freepctech.com/guides/Troubleshooting/index.shtml

maybe you find something usefull there

[Daelin]

Well... I think I had the same problem with my computer a few months ago.. The fan on my graphics card decided to die on me and the reaction I got from the computer was it starting up normally except the monitor staying completely dead.

I could hear the whole thing loading etc and the fans turning in my computer but the monitor would remain dead even when I replaced it with another.

Now best thing you can do like Gimbly said is open the thing up and have a look inside it.. and maybe keep the thing hooked up and turn it on whole you got it open so you can see if the little fan on the graphics card is turning.

Because if its not the computer simply cuts off the power to it to make sure it won't overheat so that explained the black screen.

[Ginger]

Welli cheked and the fans are all working... This is so frustrating, the thing is i dont believe my comp is starting up completly... normally it makes loads of little sounds and beeps but now it just stands there. and normally the light flikker showing thats its thining and now they are just on without flikkering