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[Akura]

My computer isn't starting anymore. It turns on, but nothing happens, not even POST. I dunno what could be the problem. There's no obvious sign of damage to either the motherboard or the CPU. On the motherboard, there is a small two-digit display that's supposed to display a code in hex that usually pertains to the problem. When nothing is wrong, it's supposed to display FF, but not it shows only 2B.

According to this this means: "21-2F  Initialize and enable EISA slots 1-15."
I have no idea what this means or what to do about it. Granted, that seems to be an addon that goes in the PCI slot, but my motherboard seems to have it built-in.

[Vespulan]

My computer isn't starting anymore. It turns on, but nothing happens, not even POST.

If you feel technologically magic, check connections from the Motherboard to see if anything's loose.  Start ruling stuff out like PSU, GPU, RAM.  You can also tell what the problem is by the number of *beeps* the computer emits when you hit the 'ON' button, but if it isn't even reaching that stage it sounds like a BIOS problem... 

[Akura]

My computer doesn't beep when it turns on ever. Once in a blue moon it might, but that's not a normal(or problematic) occurance.

[Vespulan]

My computer doesn't beep when it turns on ever. Once in a blue moon it might, but that's not a normal(or problematic) occurance.

Is it a custom-built model?  I know some manufactures don't bother with the mini-speaker things, but normally there's a single or double beep to tell you everything okay.  Have you check the connections by the way? 

[Tellemurius]

Ok so once you conclude all of the connections are right time to do some hardware test.
first pull out all pci/pcie cards from the motherboard, unplug everything that isn't a video cable or the keyboard. power cycle to check if works, if not continue on.
Then take out all but one of the ram chips, test each slot to make sure. if none of those work either the psu or the motherboard crapped.

[Akura]

 
I should be able to replace the PSU, but the motherboard will likely pose a problem, financial and/or technical.

Hopefully it won't come to that, though.

[Tarran]

I know this is a really silly and simple question, but it's the kind that irritates me badly and I cannot for the life for me find any related pages on Google: Does anyone know how to disable the drop shadow/image border that Windows 7's Photo Viewer/Photo Gallery gives images when viewing them? It's very irritating when I try to look at any of my pixel art at their actual resolution...

Nevermind, figured it out. Apparently instead of Photo Viewer windows was using "Windows Live Photo Gallery". Photo Viewer doesn't have the retarded shadow.

[Tellemurius]

I should be able to replace the PSU, but the motherboard will likely pose a problem, financial and/or technical.

Hopefully it won't come to that, though.

Akura searching up that error code i pulled this up from the EVGA forums http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1458214&mpage=1
check the video card, if you can't pull video from another video card or monitor then its definitely the psu, if it was the mobo you would get a different error/ nothing at all.

[Vespulan]

I should be able to replace the PSU, but the motherboard will likely pose a problem, financial and/or technical.

Hopefully it won't come to that, though.

Akura searching up that error code i pulled this up from the EVGA forums

I had a similar problem to the one described in that forum post - I'd over-heated one of my HDDs whilst playing Empire:Total War and the computer shut itself down, stupidly I switched the PSU off to stop it damaging anything and it blew itself (don't wanna go through THAT again ) but I don't know whether Akura had a shutdown...?  And the beeps that guy mentions sound familiar.

[Ricky]

So, need some help here. My Windows 7 computer has been warning me for a week that my hard drive is about to die. Ive made a backup onto my external HDD but i'm looking for a way to stop the poor thing from dying. the diagnostic tools that come with windows arent telling me anything. it would be much appreciated if someone could lend a hand.

if you guys need more info please ask. HDD is called ST310005 28AS

[Aklyon]

Have you tried chkdsk, or one of these?

[Ricky]

Have you tried chkdsk, or one of these?

thanks for the link.

After running the seatools it found a few errors, where it told me to run a Seatools for DOS, although i haven't any idea how to go around that. :l

[Vespulan]

Have you done everything fun, exciting and quick like formatting or de-fragging?  The diagnostic tools are well known for not being able to diagnose their own names, so you may as well blind-fold yourself and pick an HDD corruption out of a hat.   

[Ricky]

HAvent defragged yet. i'll do that now. if that fails i suppose i'll figure out how to use the Seatools DOS

[Tellemurius]

defrag doesn't help much if the computer is reporting a imminent hard drive failure :I

Those errors only popped up if a SMART scan came back with a negative.
run this http://crystalmark.info/software/CrystalDiskInfo/index-e.html
and send me back all the Attribute Names that have been flagged and their corresponding color.