Yup, I'm dealing with good old fashioned hardware problems. You see, what happens is, sometimes my computer won't start. By not start, I mean the fans start whirring, all the lights come on, all the CD drives work, but there's no video, and ore disconcertingly, no Num Lock light, and the keyboard doesn't work at all (no numLock, no casLock, no nothing). The light for thehard drive stays/blinks on for a while, thenjust stops. This can happen at random boot-ups, but especially after the computer has been on for a while. Never happens at restarts, only if the computer has been off for a few hours. I'm thinking something somewhere keeps frying, but I'm not sure what. Oh, and I have reason to believe the internal speaker is disabled because I'm not hearing any BIOS beeps.
Specs:
P4 2.8 GhZ
512MB RAM
Mobostar (asRock) X533 mobo, VIA chipset
ATI Radeon 9200 128MB
80GB 7200RPM HDD
DVD-RW, CD-RW, and external DVD-ROM drives
crapload of attached USB devices (webcam, printer, scanner, external drive, mouse, you name it)
So what could my problem be?
Thanks!
