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Hello.

 

So my father was on the computer, and called me. He told me that the monitor went black, but the computer was still on. I thought he might have kicked the monitor cable by accident. Everything seemed to be fine. When I suspected that something was wrong internally was when I was with my father. As soon as I turned on the power button I said "Dad I don't hear the fan running.."(peeped through the holes and see the fans are not spinning" After that then I went to open the computer.(on tiles) It turns on the fans spin for 5 secs, and it stops. 

 

The computer is a pre built computer from hp 

http://h20564.www2.hp.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docId=c01859894

Made in 2009

 

Did the motherboard die, PSU die????

That computer has a lot of family photos, so if it is dead will it be easy to recover the photos from the hard drive.

 

Thank you 

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Your hard drive is a basic SATA 3.5" drive. Don't worry, getting data off of there is a matter of buying a $15 drive enclosure. You're good on that.

 

Second, when you opened up the PC to see what happened when you turned the power on, were you on carpet?

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2 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

Your hard drive is a basic SATA 3.5" drive. Don't worry, getting data off of there is a matter of buying a $15 drive enclosure. You're good on that.

 

Second, when you opened up the PC to see what happened when you turned the power on, were you on carpet?

Nope wasn't on carpet. When I suspected that something was wrong internally was when I was with my father. As soon as I turned on the power button I said "Dad I don't hear the fan running.."(peeped through the holes and see the fans are not spinning" After that then I went to open the computer.(on tiles) I should have put that in the description.

 

 

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If you have anther Pc run it as a second drive and transfer the photo's that way and the important data that need a external drive. 

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it most likely is dead. let us know if you want us to make you a new build

 

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6 minutes ago, MARIO12A said:

Nope wasn't on carpet. When I suspected that something was wrong internally was when I was with my father. As soon as I turned on the power button I said "Dad I don't hear the fan running.."(peeped through the holes and see the fans are not spinning" After that then I went to open the computer.(on tiles) I should have put that in the description.

If it were the CPU or RAM, odds are the computer just wouldn't even power on. The fact that it makes a half-hearted attempt to power on has me thinking motherboard, but that's a conclusion I don't stick to until I've ruled out virtually everything else.

 

That said, when I had a bad PSU nuke half my system, something similar to this happened: I pressed the power button and the fans revved up to full speed, then died, then revved, cycling like that for a few seconds until I powered off because it wasn't posting. Before you panic, relax: my hard drives and SSD were unharmed. I wonder if it's your PSU, given that experience.

4 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Actually, you don't even need to do this. Just plug it into another computer.

I used to feel that way. Then I bought a $15 3.5" drive cage and life was good.

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Just now, wrathoftheturkey said:

Someone's eager.

its just because my family pc nearly died 

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Thanks for the info everyone. It is most likely dead that what i thought before going on here. Just wanted to see if there was some way to bring it back from the dead.

 

Also I already have a personal build for myself ;) 

 

Hopefully my family would let me build their family computer that would be fun. Most likely they would just buy a computer again after I recover the photos.

 

Thank you again everyone!

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6 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

What ram do you have in that family pc ?

Because you might be able to build nice haswell pc for not much money.     

It's an LGA775 system with DDR2. Haswell is DDR3. There's nothing really transferable except the hard drive.

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20 minutes ago, aisle9 said:

It's an LGA775 system with DDR2. Haswell is DDR3. There's nothing really transferable except the hard drive.

Some LGA775 have DRR3 1333 mhz ram.

I just checked his motherboard now and it DRR2

You can still use the case if it in good condition and the DVD RW if it is a sata drive and the hard drive.    

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2 minutes ago, Trevor87 said:

Some LGA775 have DRR3 1333 mhz ram.

This one does not.

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Memory

4 GB

Amount: 4 GB

Speed: PC2-6400 MB/sec

Memory upgrade information

Dual channel memory architecture

Two 240-pin DDR2 DIMM sockets

Supported DIMM types:

PC2-5300 (667 MHz)

PC2-6400 (800 MHz)

Non-ECC memory only, unbuffered

Supports 2GB DDR2 DIMMs

Supports up to 4 GB* on 32 bit PCs

32 bit PCs cannot address a full 4.0 GB of memory.

 

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