The worst nightmare of all time!

[mangalore]

One night was working fine, and the next day my powerful pc was resetting every second, maybe i needed a replacement for my not too old 80 gb hard disk, so i bought a new sata 250 gb HD. Same thing, i took all the four two megabyte of ram and put one by one to the test, nothing. I reinstalled my winxp x64 again and went to the process of updating all drivers and service packs, result: nothing. I changed the power supply, and even bought a new power regulator, nothing. I changed the powerplug from the wall and make the ground be chcked by a technician, result: nothing. It was the perfect nightmare. Then i opened the cover of my pc and put my ear near the power supply to try to hear any click, nothing. then it went down again and i could hear barely that the fan buzzing sound was getting lower for a little. Dont ask me how i could heard that.

 

I had a brilliant idea, took a voltage regulator from my nephew pc and plug every one of my cables into it and, voila, everything came to normal, everything worked like a charm as before. You see? The worst perfect nightmare of all times.

[Crazy Homeless Guy]

when you say nothing, does that mean it was fine? ...restarting? ....or not starting at all?

[BrianKitts]

I had a brilliant idea, took a voltage regulator from my nephew pc and plug every one of my cables into it and, voila, everything came to normal, everything worked like a charm as before. You see? The worst perfect nightmare of all times.

 

my guess would be you had a loose cable that was causing the system to short / crash. It probably wasn't the fact that you plugged it into the regulator as much as the fact that it in the process you unplugged and replugged the cable back in properly.

[RobNJ73]

I think the only thing keeping this situation from truly being the worst nightmare of all time is the fact that there are no clowns in this story.

[Slinger]

have you moved your PC to another outlet, preferably one not on the same circuit as this one?

[SandmanNinja]

I think unplugging every cable (one at a time) and then firmly plugging it back in would have been a good course of action to follow.

[mangalore]

The power regulator was guilty, the new one i bought had a fault inside and they replaced by a new one. Now everything is working fine. (When i said nothing was the same resetting over and over)

[Horhe]

And I thought that the worst nightmare of all time was 'Nightmare on Elm street'

[salf]

lol.....and probably you were working on a deadline....

 

My nightmare was something similar, about 3 months after we moved to the US, all of our stuff arrived, among those things was my PC (had to buy a laptop as soon as I got here, or I would had lose my mind), so here I'm unpacking, setting up my PC, did a quick test and turned it on, with my fingers crossed (our stuff came by sea, so I was worried something might had broke) and it worked!....nice!......start setting up things all over again, since it was a test I left everything on the table, but the final place fo rthe tower was under the table, then it happene it didn't turn on.

 

Damn it! I was scrtching my head, couldn't find any explanation, started testing thing by thing, till I reached the conclusion it had to be the MOBO, bought a new one, installed it...and.....it worked!.....so i place teh tower under the tabletop again....and one more time....it didn't turn on....WTF?!?!?!....

 

Long story short, I discovered that there's such thing as "static electricity" in the US that can really affect electronics, we have no such thing back home....lol......so the PC tower didn't want to be anywhere near the "carpet floor" of my apartment, tried placing it above rubber, wood, plastic, etc...and nothing...it has to be atleast 2 feet up, so it's now sitting by my monitor. I did buy my new PC anyways.....