broken my pc

the morning i dont know what to do it's pointless buying a new one at the moment because win 8 is coming soon

i take it you got a spare as your still on here lol
what up with it steve

i'm on my laptop it's not turning on

Not turning on at all or does it come on with a blank screen

That sucks. If you've got a laptop that's better since it's portable. Hope you didn't lose any data

if it cant be fix i going lost abit

Our laptop crashed and the repair guy was able to retrieve all of the files. Just cost us the price of a new laptop

Steve wrote:if it cant be fix i going lost abit

Might be something simple like a fuse gone on the plug

when u clock the on button u got a light that coming on but nothing else is and making a right dodgy sound

Nooooo! Disaster!

you with virgin steve???

Oh no I am no help whatsoever but hope it's fixable

Steve wrote: making a right dodgy sound

Mechanical or beeping?

bigwazza wrote:you with virgin steve???

No, Wazza - read it again. HIS COMPUTER BROKE DOWN. Nothing at all to do with who's visiting this weekend.

If its making a noise it might be the power supply.If its not supplying power to the motherboard then thats probably why the screen is blank

Lisa & Cairo wrote:If its making a noise it might be the power supply.If its not supplying power to the motherboard then thats probably why the screen is blank

My computer-before-last did that. It makes horrid vibration noises when you turned it on & eventually just wouldn't load up at all. When I took it for repair it turned out that the power inlet (is that the right word?) had burned out & had to be replaced. Only cost about £35 about 5 or 6 years ago.

my pc is like 7/8 year old

Steve wrote:my pc is like 7/8 year old

mmmm well you got your moneys worth becouse i bet its had some use in that timer
the reason i ask if you with virgin and you turned your file locker on you will or should be able to retrieve all your files and info

Steve, do you do regular backups??? if so you should still have everything.

i dont back thing up

Sorry to break it to you steve but thats it f**ked. Mine did the same and it was the processor so i really hope you have a backup

just read you don't.

oh dear.

Steve , if you are not getting anything up on the screen then it is unlikely that you have a HDD failure and more likely a PSU failure / Motherboard failure etc, the mechanical noise could be that the fan is dragging down the PSU (just a guess). Normally if you got HDD failure then you would get an error of some sort on the screen because it would still start up the bios and then report HDD not found or something.
1) Try and find out where the noise is coming from (side off the pc if you are confident for that)
2) If defo nothing on the screen then you should be able to get your hands on a hard drive caddy as below
http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=serial+hard+drive+caddy&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-GB:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=shop&cid=6481684950293149005&sa=X&ei=IK-ST-aDLNGo8APco4TODA&ved=0CIQBEPMCMAM then you can connect over USB with your laptop and hopefully retrieve your files
3) OR you take it to the shop and see what they say, but I would be 100% sure it is a good shop that isn't just going to tell you its f***ed and you need a new one.

4) One last stupid question but is your monitor ok and you are not just noticing the sound from the pc as you have a blank screen , you could always try the monitor on your laptop to be sure, obviously I can't hear the noise to judge myself as it may sound like scrap metal going through a mincer and then I reckon you have a problem but must be worth checking.

Good luck mate and hope you get your data back