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Paul2 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 17, 2004, 07:35:08 AM »

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Originally posted by theomen
I already said that

[mm mode] I swear, no one listens to me

oh, you said ps, i didn\'t really understand what that is until now. I reread it, and go "duh!"

« **Reply #16 on:** February 17, 2004, 12:29:10 PM »

anybody else relise that he was probably given bad advice? Compaqs usually have a PS unit that will only work in other compaqs. To the best of my knowledge, they are proprietary power supplys.

« **Reply #17 on:** February 17, 2004, 01:45:44 PM »

I have a compaq persario 9700 and it has a standard PSU. But maybe older ones are proprietary

« **Reply #18 on:** February 17, 2004, 01:48:00 PM »

Well I can\'t afford any problems because this is my last computer in the house and I take an online class every Wednesday night, and it is imperative that I have a working computer.

So I\'ll try it out after Wednesday cuz I don\'t want to burn my bridges.

« **Reply #19 on:** February 17, 2004, 02:26:38 PM »

You can just look at it and tell if it\'ll work or not. No danger

Paul2 · « **Reply #20 on:** February 17, 2004, 04:06:57 PM »

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Originally posted by theomen
anybody else relise that he was probably given bad advice? Compaqs usually have a PS unit that will only work in other compaqs. To the best of my knowledge, they are proprietary power supplys.

ummm...i don\'t know if Compaqs have a bad PS, but sorry for the misunderstanding.

What i am trying to say is I didn\'t know you already told him to try a different PS, or shortcut for power supply.

nevermind. I didn\'t try to give him any bad advices mind you.

« **Reply #21 on:** February 17, 2004, 07:03:17 PM »

^^
I wasn\'t aiming that at you, I actually told him to do the same exact thing before you posted it.

« **Reply #22 on:** February 19, 2004, 07:11:31 AM »

The same thing happen to me. I came home fired up the pc it\'s just humming screen comes on then it dies.

Well Hdd ended up dying out. Saddest day of my life. I had to reinstall a new one. Oh well lost all my info.

« **Reply #23 on:** February 19, 2004, 12:20:49 PM »

all that porn down the drain

videoholic · « **Reply #24 on:** February 19, 2004, 01:40:15 PM »

darn beavers... Sounds like beavers are gnawing on your wires. You need to give that beaver a lick..

« **Reply #25 on:** February 19, 2004, 02:26:16 PM »

I pray its not the HDD cuz if I lose all my songs and other..stuff... I\'m going to have to kill a few beavers.

« **Reply #26 on:** February 19, 2004, 07:57:45 PM »

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Originally posted by theomen
all that porn down the drain

so true...so true;)

§ôµÏG®ïñD · « **Reply #27 on:** February 19, 2004, 09:34:16 PM »

installing a psu are easy. Its covering them with mesh that’s a (excuse the french).. C@#T. Just take a look inside your comp. You should be able to figure it out quite easily.

« **Reply #28 on:** February 24, 2004, 03:37:55 PM »

*UPDATE*

Ok... I didnt do a thing to the computer, but I was bored and just plugged it in again, and well, it fired up.

It ran fine however it had this new "hissing" noise that went away after it was on for about 20 mins.

Anyways so now I\'m turning it off every night instead of leaving it on weeks at a time....

But this morning when I turned it on, it did the same thing, would fire up, shut off, try again, then shut off.

So this afternoon I came back from school... I press the power button, it turns on then shuts off, and then it turns back on and now its still on.

Suggestions?

« **Reply #29 on:** February 24, 2004, 07:10:15 PM »

Dude PSU\'s are easy to fix. open the box and start poking things and it will work

If it\'s your HDD then during the BIOS when it says "Searching for IDE" etc it should pause and come up as "none"

Hello

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