Help with PC

[Guest Big_Jay101]

Anyone know why my computer screen will just go blank its still on and so is the pc but it just goes blank and wont work? I'm running Microsoft Windows Xp on a compaq presario 5000. It just goes blank and I have to turn it off and wait 10 minutes because it wont come on, well it does but the light(power light) is real dull and the screen stays blank.

Edited November 24, 2003 by Big_Jay101

[Jobber of the Week]

Can't help you unless you provide more information. And please, doublecheck your spelling and English.

 

I can't even guess until I know what you meant above and what kind of computer you're running.

[Dr. Tyler; Captain America]

I had the problem you mentioned with an old computer; it was an Acer Aspire, and it sucked ass. My problem then was the motherboard going bad, but it could be a variety of things, including your computer just going into sleep mode for some random reason.

[Jobber of the Week]

My best guess: Sounds like your power supply burned out.

[MrRant]

Do you hear the HD spinning? If not then the HD is probably about to bite the dust.

[Jobber of the Week]

My guess is that the PSU (power supply) barely has enough left in it to power up the LED on the front, much less power up the video card to give you a picture or anything else on the board. This would also include the hard drives, so don't let MrRant's post above get you in too much panic. Yet.

 

Of course, it might be worse than that, but this would be the least expensive problem.