My computer broke

[adamr8965]

Nah rik passing wind.

[Rik]

Have you tried shouting at it rik?

I've tried that, pleading, Sue's offered to cook it a steak but nada. 

[Rik]

Nah rik passing wind.

Precisely. 

[adamr8965]

neither off them worked? must be proper nacked then

[Rik]

I am.

[drummer]

Have you tried hooking up an external monitor?

[Rik]

The monitor is OK, Drummer, I switched it to this machine.

[Technical Ben]

Have you tried this?
It's much easier than this one:

[Rik]

About my level, Ben.

[adamr8965]

can't see the hammer option.

[Rik]

It's on page 2.

[drummer]

The monitor is OK, Drummer, I switched it to this machine.

D'oh!  I read your first post too quickly and assumed you were talking about a netbook. 

[adamr8965]

ah hammer will always solve the problem, coz it will be full nacked. Then you'll a new one then

[Rik]

D'oh!  I read your first post too quickly and assumed you were talking about a netbook. 

I do it all the time, Drummer.

[Steve]

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20071112150542734&board_id=1&model=P5W+DH+Deluxe&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

The only one there with a solution was due to badly seated ram. I have a machine that ran for a couple of years with 4 sticks of RAM until suddenly it wouldn't post.I removed 2 sticks reset CMOS and it worked until I but the other 2 sticks back in. So now it runs Windows 7 happily with 2 Gb instead of rather slow Vista.

[Rik]

Want to pop round, Steve?

[Steve]

I would but I've got four orders for sausages,bacon,eggs,beans and toast to do before the football kicks off.

[Rik]

 

I'll get Sue on the job...

[Gary]

I'll get Sue on the job...

Its good to see age never effects libido 

[Rik]

 

[mrapoc]

no boot at all with no beeps etc.?

first off, id take the power cable out the back, discharge it all by pressing power button a few times and leave it 5 mins, try again

take out anything not needed

if still no, you are looking at component fiddling which as u say with shakey hands its a bit risky - but id take the cmos out and do the above - wait for 30 mins with cmos out.

then id try with bare minimum components - hell take the ram out and see if u get beeps!

then its a case of trying with less and less components till a) you find the culprit or b) its your motherboard fooked!

doubt its shorting somewhere, but possible

[Rik]

I'd basically narrowed it down to scrambled CMOS, power supply, motherboard, graphics card, CPU, RAM or something else, Sam. I think the case is OK though.

[kinmel]

I'd basically narrowed it down to scrambled CMOS, power supply, motherboard, graphics card, CPU, RAM or something else, Sam. I think the case is OK though.

Rik, it is much more likely to be that the smoke has escaped, be sure to point out that possibility to the repairman   

[Rik]

I kept the case hermetically sealed, Alan, which also allowed me to fry eggs on the top. 

[kinmel]

I kept the case hermetically sealed, Alan, which also allowed me to fry eggs on the top. 

Well at least you know it's not the smoke gone missing then