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Problems with booting/"turning on"

exploder
By exploder
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Hello, so i'm having some problems with my computer and I have some questions about what steps to take to try to fix it. This is a computer I built back in summer 2015 for gaming and it survived an orange juice spill that caught the GPU on fire (GPU was destroyed) and i've been using the CPU's integrated graphics for more than 4 years now. Maybe about a month and a half ago the computer experienced a couple of instances where the screen would go haywire and the image would perpetually shake, the effect was kinda similar to white noise and it could only be resolved if I restarted the computer. Two weeks later the computer stopped booting (I think that's the term i'm looking for) as when I pushed the power button the computer would try to turn on for 5 seconds and then turn off and then the process would repeat itself until I'd give up and manually press the power button again to turn off the computer. Ever since then, the computer has managed to fully turn on and stay on just a couple of times (I consider it a miracle that I'm using it to type this right now) and I don't expect this to simply go away.

 

TLDR: Computer won't boot, it turns on when I push the power button, turns off a handful of seconds later and then restarts the process perpetually without the computer being able to ever show anything on the screen. 

 

Some questions:

 

1. What does it sound like this could be?

2. Is there a relatively simple way for me to be able to diagnose and fix this myself (with help from the internet of course)?

3. If I take this to a computer repair shop, what should I tell the folks there and what sort of prices should I be expecting to see?

 

I'm honestly ready to move on from this computer but If I can fix it for under 100 dollars or so then I'd consider it. In fact, how much is the average cost for diagnosing, fixing, and cleaning a computer in a repair shop? If I could get some simple and direct help on how I could do all that myself then perhaps it could be a fun side project. Thanks.

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Just now, exploder said:

Well right now the computer is on, I assume that to go to BIOS I would need to restart and press some keys shortly after it restarts? I can try that, and then what? 

and then?

Tell me did it successfully boot into bios, if it can, you may be able to fix this problem from home.

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11 minutes ago, knockless said:

My dad had a similar problem and the part to blame was the Hard drive 

I tried restarting and it did power on again but I couldn't catch what keys to push at the very beginning of the booting as the screen went by quickly, do you know what they are? Thanks. 

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9 hours ago, exploder said:

I tried restarting and it did power on again but I couldn't catch what keys to push at the very beginning of the booting as the screen went by quickly, do you know what they are? Thanks. 

It depends, which brand is your pc?

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