ergh...coimputer problem

[Josh Seipp]

when I turn on my computer at home it sounds like it's firing up, and then starts beeping. over and over. and the monitor isn't getting any signal. any ideas?

 

[FalseTodd]

try unseating and reseating your RAM - it's having some sort of error when trying to POST (power-on-self-test)

Have you made any hardware changes recently? you can also just go through and reseat all the expansion cards as well (video, sound card) and try doing the same for power connections

 

[Josh Seipp]

no but it's been moved twice (and hasn't been used) in a month

thanks dude, will do

although...it DID work when I turned it on after setting it up about a week ago....then I didn't use it at all...then I tried turning it on on Saturday and this happened. I'll give all that a shot though.

 

[FalseTodd]

IIRC my old machine did this when I put in a video card that was not supported by the motherboard - so maybe the video card is slightly out of its' socket? same advice still applies, of course

 

[Josh Seipp]

ok that totally worked, but guess what I found in my computer???

(falsetodd is banned from guessing)

 

[0sm0se]

A dead rat? Or a bug planted by the fascist government?

 

[avi]

w33d?!

 

[FalseTodd]

not only did i originally guess weed, i too spelled it 'w33d'

 

[Josh Seipp]

hahah avi that was the first thing sam guessed

no but osmose is kind of close!!

 

[0sm0se]

Somebody's ferret that you had been watching for them but completely forgot about?

 

[Josh Seipp]

nope

ok it was a praying mantis

 

[0sm0se]

Alive?

 

[lizard]

once we put a frozen burrito in the database guy's PC case and it sat in there for weeks.

 

[FrostGiant]

Frozen? That's one cold ass computor.

 

[lizard]

well it was only frozen when we put it in there. but the deal was, it was so pumped full of preservatives that nothing happened to it. It just emitted a sort of musty odor and when we opened the case, it was like the anticipation of Carter opening the tomb of Tut, and then a total letdown that there wasn't a fuzzy mass of goo in there.

 

[Josh Seipp]

nah it was long dead. it was a baby, about an inch and a half long.

 

[xfer]

i found a giant spider and a web inside my computer when i cracked it open about two months ago to install my DVD burner. TERRIFYING.

 

[0sm0se]

Oh yeah sure, it was your collection of intarweb porn on your hard disk, you arachnophilic fornicator!

 

[chupe666]

Posting Report Card for Osmose:
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Originality: A+
Wittiness: A
Overall Tone/Execution: A
Puncuation: B+
Spelling: B (intArweb)

 

[0sm0se]

I knew it, I used too many commas.