{"id":23623,"date":"2008-01-31T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2008\/01\/31\/the-dead-home-desktop-problem-returns\/"},"modified":"2008-01-31T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-31T10:00:01","slug":"the-dead-home-desktop-problem-returns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20080131-01\/?p=23623","title":{"rendered":"The dead home desktop problem returns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2006\/10\/25\/872891.aspx\"> computer I bought not a year and a half ago<\/a> decided to keel over last week. When I push the power button, the power light goes on, the drives spin up, but there is nothing out the video card and not even a reassuring <i>beep<\/i> from the power-on self test. I&#8217;ve disconnected all the external peripherals as well as all the IDE devices, and no change. The problem might be a fried motherboard connection or something. I&#8217;m not a hardware person, so I&#8217;m not sure how to diagnose it.\n This is easily the shortest life for a computer I&#8217;ve owned (not counting the ones that were dead on arrival). I feel kind of bad buying a replacement for a computer that&#8217;s barely fifteen months old, but I also can&#8217;t think of what else I can do. All the stuff I can easily swap out I think I&#8217;ve already swapped out. And I don&#8217;t know if I can find a new power supply or motherboard that fits the custom case.\n So it&#8217;s back down to Fry&#8217;s to buy some random bottom-feeder computer just so I can whack my hard drives into it and get back in business. But man, is that machine going to inherit a lot of memory!<\/p>\n<p> (Then again, maybe my problem is that I keep buying bottom-feeder computers?) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The computer I bought not a year and a half ago decided to keel over last week. When I push the power button, the power light goes on, the drives spin up, but there is nothing out the video card and not even a reassuring beep from the power-on self test. I&#8217;ve disconnected all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[138,26],"class_list":["post-23623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-dead-computers","tag-other"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The computer I bought not a year and a half ago decided to keel over last week. When I push the power button, the power light goes on, the drives spin up, but there is nothing out the video card and not even a reassuring beep from the power-on self test. I&#8217;ve disconnected all the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}