Always amazed at what can fix a "bricked" computer

[ncpilot]

My BI computer went completely off line in middle of night. Power off reboot didn't work (I have a remote controlled outlet for the PC).

This morning I power cycled again watching monitor, and it booted into a system setup/diagnostic screen asking to set time. I ran the diagnostics and it was fine.

Swapped out the CMOS battery and it booted right up!

Last month or so it had been flaky, going offline a lot with the blue screen "unrecoverable WHEA error". Quite a while ago I swapped w/new memory, with no effect.

Really? A friggen' battery? LOL

We'll see if it goes stable now...

 

[ncpilot]

Well, that didn't last long...

 

[TonyR]

In the humid south I've found I have a few brands and designs of desktop and laptop PC's that periodically need to have their RAM pulled, the card edge gold fingers cleaned with a new, soft Pink Pearl eraser, blown off good and re-seated......may not help....but it sure won't hurt either. Just beware of static in the cool, dry winter time though.

Sometimes the same is true with video cards, etc.

 

[ncpilot]

I'm leaning more towards power supply, but I'll try all options.

I do need to check all the connections.

If not easily fixed, probably more useful to put $ for new power supply into getting Win11 ready PC...

 

[looney2ns]

In the humid south I've found I have a few brands and designs of desktop and laptop PC's that periodically need to have their RAM pulled, the card edge gold fingers cleaned with a new, soft Pink Pearl eraser, blown off good and re-seated......may not help....but it sure won't hurt either. Just beware of static in the cool, dry winter time though.

Sometimes the same is true with video cards, etc.

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I would think a shot of Deoxit on the contacts would possibly prevent this from happening.

 

[TonyR]

I would think a shot of Deoxit on the contacts would possibly prevent this from happening.

It likely would but so far the PP eraser has worked out great.....