sand-eel
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Well it is about 10 years old and hasn't been used in years, so tried starting it and the HDD and fans and shit would work but the screen wouldn't fire up and all the mouse/keyboard/usbs plugs wouldn't work, so took out the battery on the motherboard to reset it, that didn't work, so took out the RAM board and put it in another slot and finially the bastard works again.
How could the origional slot become faulty just sitting for ages? it did fully boot sometimes but its completely fine now.
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Sam
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RAM probably wasn't seated in the slot correctly.
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adiohead
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maybe it's like playing an old NES game, just gotta blow a bit of the dust off
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sand-eel
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i see
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Sam
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 adiohead
He does have a point though... Anything electrical that's plugged into something needs to be clean for any contacts to work properly.
Had the same problem on one of my PCs once, removing all the dust and crap inside the case with a hoover sorted it.
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