Hello.

My daughter's PC, that was once ours just died the other day. I was doing some uploading of photos from my camera and it just turned off. Being a tard and not knowing about PC's I thought I would leave it off and try it the next day. Anyway, it turned on and got to the welcome screen of windows where we'd log on to our user thingy me jigs and it turned off again...and keeps doing that.

Any ideas?...we have loads of photo's stored on there and being the tard I am we haven't made a back up disk.

Thanks

I'm far from a computer expert, but it may be your hardrive.

I had a similiar thing happen to my computer a few months ago. I took it to a computer store and they were able to copy everything from the damaged hard drive onto a new one and the computer was working exactly as it always had.

I think the guy described it as saying the damaged HD had a bad cell on it which was causing the problems. It cost about $175 to have it fixed and replaced.

Hope you don't lose everything you had on there. GL

I don't know much about computer hardware. But, it might be the board components. Or, it might be the hard drive itself, or the hard drive program.

It helps not to be shy about electronics. When looking at the board, the easy steps are CMOS battery replacement, memory stick replacement, or shorting the CMOS memory prongs, or replacing the entire motherboard and its components.

1. To save the hard drive contents, try shorting the CMOS prongs. Just locate a set of three prongs and their connector. Shift the connector from one position to the adjacent position, and back to the original position.

Then, try booting up. It may give you a choice of commands. Probably just F1 will open Windows.

Sometimes that works- temporarily. Things may eventually fail once and for all- so if it solves your problem, work to recover and back up the images, or whatever.

2. Replacing the CMOS battery may help. (Link)

3. You may have a boot virus. That may require running your system disk for complete data wipe and reprogramming.

4. The board may be getting ready to crash. That might be the problem. In that case, the hard drive may still be uncorrupted, and reused with a new PC motherboard, etc.

5. Might be a memory stick. It's a little difficult to find replacement for some older memory, sometimes. This is not as likely as the motherboard, itself, having a circuit failure. IMO.

Just a few thoughts. I just bought a new D-Link ADSL modem which was quickly spammed by some malware. I would have to update the firmware, I think. However, I'll just trash it and get one that is preconfigured. The hacker turned my admin page- pink, with neat little pop-ups. My old modem is not vulnerable to that stuff.

Sounds like it is overheating. Check and see if any of the fans have died, particularly the one on the processor.

Sounds like a hardware problem to me, Open your computer up, "ground yourself", and try cleaning off the ram and video card with a can of compressed air.Can you boot up in safe mode?Your power supply might be going, or hard drive might be going out.You can always try slaveing the drive from that computer in another to get what you need off of there.You can try replacing parts to try see where the problem is comming from, but unless you have spare parts, that can get expensive.Did any drivers or anything that might be important get accidently deleted?

Yeah and also check to see if the fans are working, make sure they are free fron dust and stuff.

Do what I do when I have electronic issues "give it a swift kick or hit" works everytime! (Oh before you all jump on me I'm only kidding)

A hard disk fault can't cause the computer to turn itself off. (though it MIGHT cause a reboot).

I agree with Frenat; on the face of it, this sounds like an overheat problem.

Meow Purr.

Just be thankful that today's computers turn off automatically when they get too hot. I had one years ago that I lost a hard drive and processor on two separate occasions when two different fans died. No warnings until the components failed. Of course computers ran cooler then and the processor still ran for a few weeks without the fan before it failed and ran for a year+ after that at a slightly lower speed once the fan was replaced. Processors today can't fun for a few seconds without a fan without overheating.

ROFL, thats funny though........................................................

I believe it's the power supply issue

Thanks for the replies.

Merril, You might as well have been speaking Punjabi to me. Thanks for typing all that up though.

I tried it again the other day, it turned on fine and stayed on, I looked and the fans are working etc. The only problem was the moniter/LCD moniter or whatever it is said 'No Signal' . We have another one in the attic and will be bringing that down to try it.

everyones on the right track- but honestly it sounds like the motherboard itself might be going bad.
id hurry up and ge it into a repair place so they can get you a backup of your info, an do some hardware diagnostics to narrow down the problem