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3 years ago
Hi, thank you again for having me back on furaffinity...it is the kindest, most understanding and supportive community i've been in my 22-23 years of using the internet. I have a problem, and i was wondering, sort of as a desperate last resort, if anybody had any tips on how to restore my computer (I am back on my old 2009 Dell optiplex 760 pc now...):
"N*******o *** 29 min · Compartido con: Público
I am depressed.
My new computer broke, all because i was trying to fix the faulty USB ports...it was a special deal offer from my brother, i can never buy a "Radeon RX 550" card on my own, it is $180 dollars, i dont have a job to make that kind of money. and The computer won't boot now. I feel like shit, i wanna slit my...balls."
"N*******o *** 21 min ·
Compartido con: Público
Goodbye 8th/(some) 9th generation gaming.
Hello third world poverty my old friend."
What happened was, i was trying to make these faulty USB ports work with my external hard drive, it was brand new and i really needed the space, but it'd outright not work on the usb 3.0 ones, and the regular speed usb ports picked it up for a while, with errors, meaning potential damage to files (not as big of a deal) or the disk itself due to stopping and starting and being screwy (big, big deal >.<) so i enter the bios and disable some of the USB options, and one of them was to disable USB controller. Meaning, all USB were disabled, leaving me with no way to use any input, keyboard, mouse...don't have an old ps/2 keyboard/mouse since decades either.
So: i am recommended to turn it off, take it off the AC power for 10 minutes, remove the battery in the motherboard, wait another 10 minutes, put it back in, reconnect it to the power outlet, and restart it, so that it'd reset the bios settings. It worked. Except, it would not recognize my graphics card (AMD RX 550), which i had to take out since THE BOARD MANUFACTURER HAD THE GENIUS IDEA OF PUTTING THE BATTERY *UNDER* THE CARD BELOW THE PCI-E SLOT smh. So it would recognize integrated graphics Ryzen 7 or whatever, but not my graphics card. Now using VGA as integrated doesn't have hdmi. Long story short, graphics card is not being recognied, i try and slide it in in case i put the card wrong and its not making contact, the fan spins but no dice. Not showing in devices, amd is telling me the driver is incompatible, so i uninstall AMD utility, download the auto-recognition software from AMD, at this point the fan had stopped spinning, and the software only recognized a "Ryzen 7" (integrated graphics)
And now, i can't even get the computer to turn on, it will power up, the power suply fan will spin, reset light lights up, but nothing comes on screen,i am not able to use it, not even with the integrated graphics video anymore, it won't boot.
So yeah, i think my dumb fucking ass just destroyed the only chance an unemployed asshole like me will get to have a 8th gen gaming experience, go me and my stupid idiot fucking idea.
I truly just wanted to better my pc, now that i finally i had a new-ish one after 12 years. Get it more storage space.
I ended up ruining things.
If anybody has any tips or ideas on why it may not turn on (the pc...the video card, i have no idea but i am fearful...well, i better not think about it may be broken because i will just get depressed even more) please let me know. Maybe there is a way to get it back to boot at least on integrated video, or i am doing something wrong that i am not seeing in my desperate state, maybe i disconnected some cable while removing the graphics card and am not aware, i just don't know.
Thank you kindly.
Sorry for the venting, to say i am devastated is an understatement...
"N*******o *** 29 min · Compartido con: Público
I am depressed.
My new computer broke, all because i was trying to fix the faulty USB ports...it was a special deal offer from my brother, i can never buy a "Radeon RX 550" card on my own, it is $180 dollars, i dont have a job to make that kind of money. and The computer won't boot now. I feel like shit, i wanna slit my...balls."
"N*******o *** 21 min ·
Compartido con: Público
Goodbye 8th/(some) 9th generation gaming.
Hello third world poverty my old friend."
What happened was, i was trying to make these faulty USB ports work with my external hard drive, it was brand new and i really needed the space, but it'd outright not work on the usb 3.0 ones, and the regular speed usb ports picked it up for a while, with errors, meaning potential damage to files (not as big of a deal) or the disk itself due to stopping and starting and being screwy (big, big deal >.<) so i enter the bios and disable some of the USB options, and one of them was to disable USB controller. Meaning, all USB were disabled, leaving me with no way to use any input, keyboard, mouse...don't have an old ps/2 keyboard/mouse since decades either.
So: i am recommended to turn it off, take it off the AC power for 10 minutes, remove the battery in the motherboard, wait another 10 minutes, put it back in, reconnect it to the power outlet, and restart it, so that it'd reset the bios settings. It worked. Except, it would not recognize my graphics card (AMD RX 550), which i had to take out since THE BOARD MANUFACTURER HAD THE GENIUS IDEA OF PUTTING THE BATTERY *UNDER* THE CARD BELOW THE PCI-E SLOT smh. So it would recognize integrated graphics Ryzen 7 or whatever, but not my graphics card. Now using VGA as integrated doesn't have hdmi. Long story short, graphics card is not being recognied, i try and slide it in in case i put the card wrong and its not making contact, the fan spins but no dice. Not showing in devices, amd is telling me the driver is incompatible, so i uninstall AMD utility, download the auto-recognition software from AMD, at this point the fan had stopped spinning, and the software only recognized a "Ryzen 7" (integrated graphics)
And now, i can't even get the computer to turn on, it will power up, the power suply fan will spin, reset light lights up, but nothing comes on screen,i am not able to use it, not even with the integrated graphics video anymore, it won't boot.
So yeah, i think my dumb fucking ass just destroyed the only chance an unemployed asshole like me will get to have a 8th gen gaming experience, go me and my stupid idiot fucking idea.
I truly just wanted to better my pc, now that i finally i had a new-ish one after 12 years. Get it more storage space.
I ended up ruining things.
If anybody has any tips or ideas on why it may not turn on (the pc...the video card, i have no idea but i am fearful...well, i better not think about it may be broken because i will just get depressed even more) please let me know. Maybe there is a way to get it back to boot at least on integrated video, or i am doing something wrong that i am not seeing in my desperate state, maybe i disconnected some cable while removing the graphics card and am not aware, i just don't know.
Thank you kindly.
Sorry for the venting, to say i am devastated is an understatement...
Some BIOS reset to some very stupid defaults as in "use only integrated GPU", for safety reasons. You might want to check that.
The problem now is that the pc is not booting at all, even after i removed the battery for 10 minutes and placed it back again to reset the bios once more, this was last night before i hooked this old dell pc.
Furthermore the non-integrated graphics card's fan had stopped spinning before that, i hope that does not mean it stopped functioning :( the AMD auto-recognition driver software was able to recognize the integrated graphics (ryzen 7...back when it booted, that is.) but not my "RX 550" card ;w;
I was told by my parents not to touch it, and that my dad will look to see if he can do something about it today. He is a technician, but...if i toasted the hardware in any way, there may not be anything he can do :( i really REALLY hope not, that it may be a loose cable that is not letting the PC power on, but...i just don't know...
Also my dad said just because the fan is not spinning does not mean that i burnt the card, that i didn't burn the card...i just hope he is right. I can't afford something like that...
All i wanted was to better the PC, fix the USB ports so as to expand the storage with my usb hard drive, not do the opposite ;w; i feel bad about that...
Motherboard seems to be toast (electric malfunction for sure, something burnt or got damaged)
I couldn't even access the BIOS or get it to boot, the power button which should have a blue light, was not even lighting up let alone working.
I had to sadly accept that it is not salvageable, take out the useful parts (useful when because i have a dell pc from 2009 that cant use these) and throw the case with just the motherboard/dvd reader in the trash to have some catharsis that this nightmare ever happened.
Thank you for responding to my tips and help request, sadly by that time i posted it too late, but i do appreciate you cared and provided your knowledge and support. And sorry to have bothered you with such a negative stuff.