12harry
Prominent Member
I though I would be visiting my local Dealer trying to fix my PC which appeared to die after a 5hr Rendering a DVD (overnight session, - I was asleep).
The PC stopped working almost at the end of the Render, leaving just 5mins to completion ( Rather ODD I thought ). On firing it up, it continued the Render and then I burnt the DVD-disc in about 7 minutes. Oddly when It says: "Do you want to burn another?" the Mouse wouldn't respond. Being Windows, if there is a "box" that needs an answer there is no way I know to bypass this, to continue other work, for example. It just waits for that Answer, ignoring all else.
This Mouse failure wasn't due to the mouse itself.... the internal battery still powered the blue LED and I checked the USB-receiver thingy.... by plugging it in again.
On removing the Mains supply..... when I switched-on it reminded me it hadn't been shut-down correctly . . . but foolishly I didn't go via "Safe-Mode" and then Restart.
However, the mouse pointer was still frozen . . . Arrow keys...etc...Nothing would move it....
So I was forced to switch off the mains. ( Again!)..... on restarting..... nothing . . . the MBO splash-screen wasn't there - the BIOS-beeps were absent . . . in effect it was a dead PC.
I had to go out later, so I shut it down . . . thinking that maybe the MBO was dead. . . or perhaps a wire was off ( most unlikely, but possible ). I wondered if the Reset button ( Front-panel) was faulty, meaning I have to take the case apart.... since I'd been pressing it a few times to try an get the PC into a Working-Mode.
Anyway 12 hrs later I switched on . . . exactly as in earlier times . . . and it fired-up, \BIOS Beeps and then the MBO . . . and then Win7 . . . . advised be to run in Safe Mode . . .which I did this time... then shut-down and Restarted. . . .
Well, it appears to be running OK . . . I'm sending this Msg using it and the Mouse is well-behaved.
Any ideas as to what happened?
I have left the PC running before overnight ( for long film Renders ) and it doesn't normally shut itself down . . . . It was a cool room and we don't suffer power surges. Also I know there was no supply interruption, since my 24-hr Radio would lose its program settings.
I would like to do "Something" - as a trip to the Dealer, however friendly . . . is usually costly.
The PC stopped working almost at the end of the Render, leaving just 5mins to completion ( Rather ODD I thought ). On firing it up, it continued the Render and then I burnt the DVD-disc in about 7 minutes. Oddly when It says: "Do you want to burn another?" the Mouse wouldn't respond. Being Windows, if there is a "box" that needs an answer there is no way I know to bypass this, to continue other work, for example. It just waits for that Answer, ignoring all else.
This Mouse failure wasn't due to the mouse itself.... the internal battery still powered the blue LED and I checked the USB-receiver thingy.... by plugging it in again.
On removing the Mains supply..... when I switched-on it reminded me it hadn't been shut-down correctly . . . but foolishly I didn't go via "Safe-Mode" and then Restart.
However, the mouse pointer was still frozen . . . Arrow keys...etc...Nothing would move it....
So I was forced to switch off the mains. ( Again!)..... on restarting..... nothing . . . the MBO splash-screen wasn't there - the BIOS-beeps were absent . . . in effect it was a dead PC.
I had to go out later, so I shut it down . . . thinking that maybe the MBO was dead. . . or perhaps a wire was off ( most unlikely, but possible ). I wondered if the Reset button ( Front-panel) was faulty, meaning I have to take the case apart.... since I'd been pressing it a few times to try an get the PC into a Working-Mode.
Anyway 12 hrs later I switched on . . . exactly as in earlier times . . . and it fired-up, \BIOS Beeps and then the MBO . . . and then Win7 . . . . advised be to run in Safe Mode . . .which I did this time... then shut-down and Restarted. . . .
Well, it appears to be running OK . . . I'm sending this Msg using it and the Mouse is well-behaved.
Any ideas as to what happened?
I have left the PC running before overnight ( for long film Renders ) and it doesn't normally shut itself down . . . . It was a cool room and we don't suffer power surges. Also I know there was no supply interruption, since my 24-hr Radio would lose its program settings.
I would like to do "Something" - as a trip to the Dealer, however friendly . . . is usually costly.