We recently did a complete overhaul of a room in my house, and I was in charge of moving the electronics out and back in. I turned off the PSU and unplugged it, moving it into another room where it sat unpowered for about 2 and a half weeks.
As it turns out, I may have inadvertently unplugged the computer while it was hibernating, not powered off.
Yesterday I put it back in the room and went to power it up, but got nothing. Fans spun, lights came on, it beeped once, but the screens never came on.
Turned it off, switched one of the monitors from the GPU to the MoBo video out. After a try or two more, I got to the generic Windows Recovery tool. It decided to take the generic route and try a roll-back to older settings. It did its job and rebooted all on the onboard video. I then shut it down completely, and swapped the monitor back over to the GPU....
Nothing again. I was just about ready to assume it was the GPU, so I swapped it back to the MoBo video out and launched it again. Startup repair again, this time it said something was wrong with the hibernate files, (something-hiber.sys or something like that), so it just restarted. This time I told it to abandon the hibernation and restart like normal. Again, I booted up on the onboard graphics chip.
Another shut down, this time power was removed, and I reseated the GPU, as well as the RAM, just in case, because I already had the GPU out of the way.
I cycled the power a few more times, and got a lot of different responses.
While laying down, it came on without a hitch the first time. I stood it up, and as I was clicking the front of the case on, it all hung up and froze. It wouldn't start. I tried a few more times to no effect. Everything inside the computer, and the blinking HDD light all seemed normal, but no video output.
I laid it back down and tried again. I got a single beep one time, starting and restarting fanst/lights another, and then it came on again. After making sure it launched completely, I very carefully jiggled every even-somewhat-loose component in the case a bit to make sure it wasn't a loose seating or something. Satisfied that wasn't the case, I stood it back up, and it's been fine for the last 24 hours.
The fact that it wouldn't start while standing up is the one that has me worried most.
Has anybody ever seen behaivior like this on a computer that's been unplugged for a few weeks? Could the fact that it was in hibernation have anything to do with it? And, while there's a chance it only starting while on its side was purely coincidence, I'm seeing a lot of reports that could mean anything from bad RAM to a bad MoBo, but nothing concrete.
OS: Windows 7 x64
CPU: i7@3.5gHz
GPU: Radeon 7950 3gb
RAM: 8gb (was 10 [wtf, I know], but I left the spare 2 gig stick out while I was poking around inside)
I'm not at the computer right now, but that's all the specifics I can remember.
ALSO: I just recalled that when I powered it on last night, the second monitor wasn't getting video. It only started receiving video sometime this morning. Just in case a delay in video output might help diagnose this.
As it turns out, I may have inadvertently unplugged the computer while it was hibernating, not powered off.
Yesterday I put it back in the room and went to power it up, but got nothing. Fans spun, lights came on, it beeped once, but the screens never came on.
Turned it off, switched one of the monitors from the GPU to the MoBo video out. After a try or two more, I got to the generic Windows Recovery tool. It decided to take the generic route and try a roll-back to older settings. It did its job and rebooted all on the onboard video. I then shut it down completely, and swapped the monitor back over to the GPU....
Nothing again. I was just about ready to assume it was the GPU, so I swapped it back to the MoBo video out and launched it again. Startup repair again, this time it said something was wrong with the hibernate files, (something-hiber.sys or something like that), so it just restarted. This time I told it to abandon the hibernation and restart like normal. Again, I booted up on the onboard graphics chip.
Another shut down, this time power was removed, and I reseated the GPU, as well as the RAM, just in case, because I already had the GPU out of the way.
I cycled the power a few more times, and got a lot of different responses.
While laying down, it came on without a hitch the first time. I stood it up, and as I was clicking the front of the case on, it all hung up and froze. It wouldn't start. I tried a few more times to no effect. Everything inside the computer, and the blinking HDD light all seemed normal, but no video output.
I laid it back down and tried again. I got a single beep one time, starting and restarting fanst/lights another, and then it came on again. After making sure it launched completely, I very carefully jiggled every even-somewhat-loose component in the case a bit to make sure it wasn't a loose seating or something. Satisfied that wasn't the case, I stood it back up, and it's been fine for the last 24 hours.
The fact that it wouldn't start while standing up is the one that has me worried most.
Has anybody ever seen behaivior like this on a computer that's been unplugged for a few weeks? Could the fact that it was in hibernation have anything to do with it? And, while there's a chance it only starting while on its side was purely coincidence, I'm seeing a lot of reports that could mean anything from bad RAM to a bad MoBo, but nothing concrete.
OS: Windows 7 x64
CPU: i7@3.5gHz
GPU: Radeon 7950 3gb
RAM: 8gb (was 10 [wtf, I know], but I left the spare 2 gig stick out while I was poking around inside)
I'm not at the computer right now, but that's all the specifics I can remember.
ALSO: I just recalled that when I powered it on last night, the second monitor wasn't getting video. It only started receiving video sometime this morning. Just in case a delay in video output might help diagnose this.
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