Dead-PC

You go to your desk and turn on your PC, but nothing happens! Your PC just died! What do you do? You’ve got to get your e-mail, and you needed to check the internet for a few things.

A Dead-PC can be classified into 3 categories:

PC - No Power

• PC Has no power  the power light doesn’t come on, you looked at the back of the computer and the fan(s) aren’t running. You do not hear any clicking, or beeping.

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PC has Power – No video 

• You see some activity, such as a fan running, or hear some clicking, beeping, etc

• You see disk activity light

• Power light is on

• Fan running

• You hear some clicking, beeping, etc in the system unit

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PC has power – and "something" is on the Monitor 

• You may only see a blinking cursor, or just some text about CD or keyboard being detected, etc

• There are also Blue Screen Stop Errors (Blue screen of Death!) or other text messages : see examples below)

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Windows Startup Error

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