Need help.....my computer died.....again!

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

I bought this refurbished from a company on Ebay last year.

Again, some call them "Stink"pads!



The jostling about of a laptop would mean that a card can get a speck of dust and that could create havoc.

[HeavenlyOne]

I have my laptop on my lap when using it. When not in use (although still on), it's on the floor. I don't know what else to do with it since I don't have an end table or coffee table.

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

I have no idea why it's working when it wasn't before, but if the DIMM card wasn't in all the way or something to that effect, it will make the computer beep instead of boot up.

I'm on the computer now and it's working like a charm!

That's right. It will beep.

Also, before hand when it would not boot up, did the BIOS run?

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

I have my laptop on my lap when using it. When not in use (although still on), it's on the floor. I don't know what else to do with it since I don't have an end table or coffee table.

There is a special "table" that is made for laptops and is made to help keep them cool. You should try something like that. I'd feel funny about putting a running laptop on the floor...is it carpeted?

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

That's right. It will beep.

Also, before hand when it would not boot up, did the BIOS run?

No. Nothing on the screen at all. No color, nothing except for the beeps that would cease as soon as the sequence of beeping was over.

[HeavenlyOne]

Originally Posted by Praxeas

There is a special "table" that is made for laptops and is made to help keep them cool. You should try something like that. I'd feel funny about putting a running laptop on the floor...is it carpeted?

Uh.....yeah. Maybe that's my problem?

I might get a TV tray or something like that to put it on when I'm not using it.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

Uh.....yeah. Maybe that's my problem?

I might get a TV tray or something like that to put it on when I'm not using it.

Or an endtable, or a $3 trash can inverted.....

[Praxeas]

Originally Posted by HeavenlyOne

Uh.....yeah. Maybe that's my problem?

I might get a TV tray or something like that to put it on when I'm not using it.

I'd be concerned about static down there. If you get an extra module, plug it in and then on boot up see if your bios includes it