j2k4
10-18-2010, 01:49 PM
My wife's old Dell E520 went fzzzzzz over the weekend -
She 'woke' it up with the mouse, only to have it start flashing a BSOD (I saw all this from my recliner) - flashing so fast as to be unreadable - then the monitor went black with power light flashing as if it went to sleep.
The tower seems to be sitting in a more-or-less static state (occasional hard-drive indicator flashes); a hard shut-down and restart yields what looks to be an abnormal flashing of the '1 2 3 4' lights on the 'puter - which, I suppose, indicates what the problem might be - then settles into the static state.
The fact I have no video doesn't help, of course; I have a spare vid-card (GS 7600) I can throw in to see if that's the problem, but...
Any ideas?
She 'woke' it up with the mouse, only to have it start flashing a BSOD (I saw all this from my recliner) - flashing so fast as to be unreadable - then the monitor went black with power light flashing as if it went to sleep.
The tower seems to be sitting in a more-or-less static state (occasional hard-drive indicator flashes); a hard shut-down and restart yields what looks to be an abnormal flashing of the '1 2 3 4' lights on the 'puter - which, I suppose, indicates what the problem might be - then settles into the static state.
The fact I have no video doesn't help, of course; I have a spare vid-card (GS 7600) I can throw in to see if that's the problem, but...
Any ideas?