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Sup people. I need some ideas on what could be wrong with my familys PC back home. Unfortunately I stand 250 miles away from being able to help them.
Heres the scoop:
My mother was doing something on the computer, and all of a sudden the PC stopped dead on her, with a constant high pitched sound coming from the speakers. She was listening to music or something.
Then as someone would do, she rebooted the computer. When the computer came up it said something about the CMOS settings, so she told me, and stopped there.
I dealt with this set up that my family is using now before, and it did that to me once before. I reset the CMOS, set the correct settings, and all was good.
But now, instead of it being fixed as simple as that, for some reason now the computer has a blank screen when turned on, and the monitor goes into standby mode. This, for me, is unusual. The motherboard thats in the machine at home has its unique querks, and until now I had dealt with every single one.
Every now and then she says when she tries powering it on again the bios screen with the CMOS problem comes up again, but the computer doesnt see the keyboard, and when she tries to do something about it, the screen comes up blank again on the next reboot.
I am 250 miles away, and this is just my luck. All swearing aside, does anybody have some suggestions as to what to try? I might have to wait until I get home for summer to deal with this, but any suggestions as of right now are appreciated.
I have ideas of my own but I want to gather some info from others. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
Heres the scoop:
My mother was doing something on the computer, and all of a sudden the PC stopped dead on her, with a constant high pitched sound coming from the speakers. She was listening to music or something.
Then as someone would do, she rebooted the computer. When the computer came up it said something about the CMOS settings, so she told me, and stopped there.
I dealt with this set up that my family is using now before, and it did that to me once before. I reset the CMOS, set the correct settings, and all was good.
But now, instead of it being fixed as simple as that, for some reason now the computer has a blank screen when turned on, and the monitor goes into standby mode. This, for me, is unusual. The motherboard thats in the machine at home has its unique querks, and until now I had dealt with every single one.
Every now and then she says when she tries powering it on again the bios screen with the CMOS problem comes up again, but the computer doesnt see the keyboard, and when she tries to do something about it, the screen comes up blank again on the next reboot.
I am 250 miles away, and this is just my luck. All swearing aside, does anybody have some suggestions as to what to try? I might have to wait until I get home for summer to deal with this, but any suggestions as of right now are appreciated.
I have ideas of my own but I want to gather some info from others. Thanks for any ideas and suggestions.
