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June 16th 10, 02:53 AM
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Hard drive won't power up
jemster wrote:
I have a Gateway desktop (Win XP Home w/sp3 IE 7) and lately it has been slowing down painfully slow despite running Avira anti-virus, Spybot,, PConPoint, doing disk cleanup, defrag, etc. Last Thursday I turned on the monitor and when I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute so I kept doing it and each time it would load a little further before it shut off. It finally stayed on until I finished with email and shut it down. Friday went thru the same thing praying all the time it would let me do a system restore. I was able to do that to a week prior .and thought it would be ok...ha...doing my own thinking again. Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off. I have so much stuff on that computer that I sure don't want to lose...oh I also have had a external hard drive connected to it. What do I do/try now? Thanks Joni Sounds like you may need to replace the power supply. Since this is clearly a hardware issue, this page might help: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot Also cross-posting to: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware 
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June 16th 10, 03:00 AM
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Hard drive won't power up
Wow, what a bunch of good info...I need to see if I can hook this laptop to my printer. Thanks a bunch Daave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Daave" wrote in message ... jemster wrote: I have a Gateway desktop (Win XP Home w/sp3 IE 7) and lately it has been slowing down painfully slow despite running Avira anti-virus, Spybot,, PConPoint, doing disk cleanup, defrag, etc. Last Thursday I turned on the monitor and when I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute so I kept doing it and each time it would load a little further before it shut off. It finally stayed on until I finished with email and shut it down. Friday went thru the same thing praying all the time it would let me do a system restore. I was able to do that to a week prior .and thought it would be ok...ha...doing my own thinking again. Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off. I have so much stuff on that computer that I sure don't want to lose...oh I also have had a external hard drive connected to it. What do I do/try now? Thanks Joni Sounds like you may need to replace the power supply. Since this is clearly a hardware issue, this page might help: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot Also cross-posting to: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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June 16th 10, 03:00 AM
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Hard drive won't power up
Wow, what a bunch of good info...I need to see if I can hook this laptop to my printer. Thanks a bunch Daave!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "Daave" wrote in message ... jemster wrote: I have a Gateway desktop (Win XP Home w/sp3 IE 7) and lately it has been slowing down painfully slow despite running Avira anti-virus, Spybot,, PConPoint, doing disk cleanup, defrag, etc. Last Thursday I turned on the monitor and when I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute so I kept doing it and each time it would load a little further before it shut off. It finally stayed on until I finished with email and shut it down. Friday went thru the same thing praying all the time it would let me do a system restore. I was able to do that to a week prior .and thought it would be ok...ha...doing my own thinking again. Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off. I have so much stuff on that computer that I sure don't want to lose...oh I also have had a external hard drive connected to it. What do I do/try now? Thanks Joni Sounds like you may need to replace the power supply. Since this is clearly a hardware issue, this page might help: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot Also cross-posting to: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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June 16th 10, 10:37 AM
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Hard drive won't power up
I was able to boot up long enough to transfer data to the external hard
drive....YEA!!!! Praying and swear words DO help! :-) I also ordered a power supply to try first. Bless yer little pea-pickin' heart Daave...you've been a lot of help!! "Daave" wrote in message ... jemster wrote: I have a Gateway desktop (Win XP Home w/sp3 IE 7) and lately it has been slowing down painfully slow despite running Avira anti-virus, Spybot,, PConPoint, doing disk cleanup, defrag, etc. Last Thursday I turned on the monitor and when I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute so I kept doing it and each time it would load a little further before it shut off. It finally stayed on until I finished with email and shut it down. Friday went thru the same thing praying all the time it would let me do a system restore. I was able to do that to a week prior .and thought it would be ok...ha...doing my own thinking again. Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off. I have so much stuff on that computer that I sure don't want to lose...oh I also have had a external hard drive connected to it. What do I do/try now? Thanks Joni Sounds like you may need to replace the power supply. Since this is clearly a hardware issue, this page might help: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot Also cross-posting to: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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June 16th 10, 10:37 AM
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Hard drive won't power up
I was able to boot up long enough to transfer data to the external hard
drive....YEA!!!! Praying and swear words DO help! :-) I also ordered a power supply to try first. Bless yer little pea-pickin' heart Daave...you've been a lot of help!! "Daave" wrote in message ... jemster wrote: I have a Gateway desktop (Win XP Home w/sp3 IE 7) and lately it has been slowing down painfully slow despite running Avira anti-virus, Spybot,, PConPoint, doing disk cleanup, defrag, etc. Last Thursday I turned on the monitor and when I pushed the power button on the hard drive it turned itself off after a minute so I kept doing it and each time it would load a little further before it shut off. It finally stayed on until I finished with email and shut it down. Friday went thru the same thing praying all the time it would let me do a system restore. I was able to do that to a week prior .and thought it would be ok...ha...doing my own thinking again. Saturday when I pushed the power button it would shut off as soon as my finger left the button. I could hear the fan turn on and off. I have so much stuff on that computer that I sure don't want to lose...oh I also have had a external hard drive connected to it. What do I do/try now? Thanks Joni Sounds like you may need to replace the power supply. Since this is clearly a hardware issue, this page might help: http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/...ardware_Tshoot Also cross-posting to: microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware
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