Hey whats up?
I was told by my brilliant professor Steve Klein, that CAOS was able to help with computer malfunctions?
I spend the majority of my life on my desktop computer, windows XP
it was top of the line about a year ago, and i had a friend build it for me OEM style.
If there was anyone who could take a look at it and maybe fix it or tell me what the problem might be, I will happily compensate you!
It basically wont start up any longer or freeze when it does start due to "CHIP fan fail" and some other issues.
I can tell you more info if you email me. ThaCandyMan at yahoo d_o_t com
p.s. - I'm a world of warcraft addict, i need my fix, help me please!
I might be able to help. Are you on campus? You can email me with details: bandyguy at hotmail dot com
Simply sounds like your fan on your CPU isn't working. Thats your BIOS on your motherboard not letting the machine boot so you don't fry something.
Oh and don't post your entire email address on here. Bots crawl this site regularly looking for addresses to spam. I went ahead and changed that for you, so hopefully it saves you some trouble.
Scott
Could be the connection jiggled loose, if you feel confortable opening up your computer, try finding the cpu fan and make sure the power plug is in securely into the motherboard.
Ah snap, thank you for fixing the email thing, i didnt even think about the spammers.
Ive taken it apart several times and only unplugged the cords I knew i could figure out.
Ill try the fan cord again, see if that does anything, but I am going to assume it wont be as simple as that.
Ill email you bandyguy, see if we cant figure this out. Thank you for the quick replies. I was almost tempted to take to a computer repair shop, but that never seems like a good idea.
Only help him if he plays Horde IMO.
I was waiting for one of you to show up and talk some :censored:. =)
I have both horde and alliance... mainly alliance... Rogue.
And I dont lose duels.
Ever.
Any of you in Stormstrike battle group?
I would help, but I'm to busy owning alliance rogues in AV with my mage. I'm on Emberstorm though
Seriously though, if you've got a Core 2 Duo processor, I've got an extra fan if you find that your fan is faulty. Also, newegg.com is about the cheapest place to go for computer parts that I've found if you want a brand new one.
No problem on the email thing. Its what a +4 moderator does :lol: If you want an easy way to see if it's your fan: take the side case off and fire it up. It should ALWAYS be on when the PC is on. If the fan doesn't turn on, turn the machine off. Test the connector and try again. Simple diagnosis.
Scott
I actually built a computer last year and have recently been having trouble with a "chip fan fail" message at boot up. It turned out to be a fan on a chipset on the motherboard instead of the cpu fan. I found out it was a common problem on my particular motherboard. If you do some searching on google with your motherboard model and your problems, you may stumble across some good info.
Definately very possible. Hopefully if this is the case, and the fan IS working you can go into the BIOS settings and disable the warning.
Number 1) I have not lost to a mage since they just handed you ice block, so that makes me /giggle if you can kill rogues on your server =)
Number 2) I have turned off this message for chip fan, and turned it on, and it worked until the next restart and thats when it just started freezing up at any random point between that "chip fan fail" message and when my background finally loads up. So I am almost worried to run any tests on it and mess it up more. I would be a lot more comfortable bringing the tower to any of you who have posted about possible fixes.
Or if you wanted to stop by, live off campus with bunch WoW addicts =)
I tip will!!
If its randomly freezing up its quite possible that a chip is over heating and by the sound of it pretty darn fast. I'd be more than happy to help you take a look at it sometime. When/Where are you available.
Scott
Oh you could also bring it into the lab when I'm around :)
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The only thing that mages can effectively kill are warriors.
That being said Warriors kill just about everything else without a problem. I stopped PvPing just after season 3 started. I wanted to get my main hand so bad, but then Archimonde was nice enough to drop Tempest of Chaos for me, so I said screw that and gave up until Blizzard does some fixing.
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As for the computer, just take it to Scott or the geek squad, sounds like this isn't a problem that can be fixed without some serious hands on.
buy a mac
Its a hardware issue, not software JR.
Macs can have hardware problems same as PCs, only difference is you have to go pay big bucks to have it fixed if it is out of warranty vs. PC you find a deal on newegg and fix it your self. :D
OUCH! :mello:
wasn't retribution, just a fact. I'm the first to admit PCs have problems too.
not a bad proposition. WoW is playable on macs after all... ;)
Ah, I love WoW arguments and MacVsWindows ... both bring so much anger =)
ill prolly end up bringing it by the lab one of these days, been rather sick with that flu going around.
Didnt mean to disappear after posting.
Maybe tomorrow, Wednesday 13th. Class starts at 1, will any of you be in the lab before hand? Or is that pretty early.
Also, got ballsy, opened it up, one of the fans burns to the touch, and def isnt spinning ... so i would assume that is my problem , but i dont have a clue how to take it out or if thats even safe?
so info on that, would be awesome, took me about 20 min to figure out how to get the graphics card out safely. =/
It should be safe to carefully remove it. (can't give specifics, every one is diff). If you can get it out you might be able to take it to a place that sells computer parts in Fairview. Or just look for one that looks like it on ebay