OpticalOrange99
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Hey.
I've had a HP Pavilion for 4 years now. Its got like 512MB of Ram a 2.53Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Processor and a Radeon 9000 series graphics card (not sure if its intergrated or not. All I know is it's ****).
Anyways I cant get the complete specs from the directx diagnostic thing because of the following problem.
For the last 3 years everytime I leave it without power for over a week itll freeze on OS loadup or programs will act all funny if I do get XP to load. Its usually the time which is at like 2999 AD or 1903AD or something ridiculous. One time it was at like the 49th of decemeber or something. A friend told me its a dead battery or something. I wish I'd gotten it fixed all that time ago so I wouldnt have the current problem which is as follows.
Usually changing the date back to normal fixed the aforementioned problems. But this one is in a world of its own. We left it without power for 5 weeks and it refused to turn on. The LED light would just be on and we couldnt get it to do anything. We left it for another 6 weeks thinking it was a gonner.
Then I fiddled with the power cable while turning it on. It burst back to life like someone waking out of a coma. The Loading LEd started flashing. The power light beside the chord at the back switched on. I then pulled the power cable out again and firmly secured it back in. The computer turned on and went through its loading sequence but froze.
Eventually with enough times of pulling the cable out and putting it back in the computer had its sound back. It would turn on and off perfectly. I could even hear it clicking desktop icons as I moved the mouse. But one last problem that messing with the power chord didnt solve. There is nothing displayed on the monitor! :O I could do without the sound but without visuals its worthless.
So what do I do? Have any of you ever heard of a PC acting like this before? I sure havent, although I dont know much about PCs. What I do know is the monitor is perfect its just not receiving anything from the PC tower. Anyone know how to solve this? I really like the HP and Im now reduced to using a Gateway Windows 98
which would make anyone cry.
I've had a HP Pavilion for 4 years now. Its got like 512MB of Ram a 2.53Ghz Intel Pentium 4 Processor and a Radeon 9000 series graphics card (not sure if its intergrated or not. All I know is it's ****).
Anyways I cant get the complete specs from the directx diagnostic thing because of the following problem.
For the last 3 years everytime I leave it without power for over a week itll freeze on OS loadup or programs will act all funny if I do get XP to load. Its usually the time which is at like 2999 AD or 1903AD or something ridiculous. One time it was at like the 49th of decemeber or something. A friend told me its a dead battery or something. I wish I'd gotten it fixed all that time ago so I wouldnt have the current problem which is as follows.
Usually changing the date back to normal fixed the aforementioned problems. But this one is in a world of its own. We left it without power for 5 weeks and it refused to turn on. The LED light would just be on and we couldnt get it to do anything. We left it for another 6 weeks thinking it was a gonner.
Then I fiddled with the power cable while turning it on. It burst back to life like someone waking out of a coma. The Loading LEd started flashing. The power light beside the chord at the back switched on. I then pulled the power cable out again and firmly secured it back in. The computer turned on and went through its loading sequence but froze.
Eventually with enough times of pulling the cable out and putting it back in the computer had its sound back. It would turn on and off perfectly. I could even hear it clicking desktop icons as I moved the mouse. But one last problem that messing with the power chord didnt solve. There is nothing displayed on the monitor! :O I could do without the sound but without visuals its worthless.
So what do I do? Have any of you ever heard of a PC acting like this before? I sure havent, although I dont know much about PCs. What I do know is the monitor is perfect its just not receiving anything from the PC tower. Anyone know how to solve this? I really like the HP and Im now reduced to using a Gateway Windows 98
which would make anyone cry.
