Recent content by aurora.dust

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    Computer having problems starting up

    Have since contacted gigabyte mb manufacturer,who have been helpful. Given link and guidance for updating/flashing bios. However, final phase of updating those bios meant a computer reboot which was attempted by the process , BUT since the computer never restarted -back to the revving up hard...
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Update: I deleted the “Susan” account. Problem still persisting with computer regarding the PSU revving up – starting up all fans etc. and but not getting to any start screen – well not till after numerous attempts by it. Having received the message about corrupted bios for mother board some...
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Update I changed the CMOS battery on motherboard (nothing more- just a simple swap over of battery) and computer started, after a few revs. Was given option of settings bios or going with default optimised ones. Went with latter. I have tried rebooting the computer since- still seems to take a...
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Well looks like a disaster now. Not sure what to do. I started up pc today and there sounded one revolution of the motor then nothing. Now on pressing computer start switch nothing happens. Seems dead.
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    Computer having problems starting up

    No, but well it might be hardware related with the booting of pc. Really no idea now.
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Well I changed the “Susan” MS account to a local one just to see if it might make a difference. It did not. The Start Up problem of the pc from turned off status and the Windows start up may well be 2 different problems. I am not keen to take measures which may well not solve the problem. I will...
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Well I have been to user accounts - I only see the "Susan" MS account if I go into the LOCAL admin a/c and then it is only via " manage another account" or some such term. When on MS Susan account- I cannot see the local account- There is an option to create one but well there is one already...
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Well I have been given further advice: I have in effect 2 accounts in use on the computer. My original one - let's called it Susan and a local Admin account as I found that although Susan was administrator that the Susan account could not access everything in the admin settings and all the admin...
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    Computer having problems starting up

    Hi, I see from reading around that a few others have experienced a similar issue- however, I am still not sure what the cause is or how to identify it. The problem is my computer has problems starting up after it has been shut down. If I just restart the computer there seems no problem. It is...