thismightbeausername
Geek Trainee
I really don't know, I've been registered for literally five minutes. If it needs to be moved, please move it.
I have a Dell Inspiron 531s, running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, and a few hours ago I went to do my usual routine of shutting it down and bringing it back up in lieu of the restart option. I also got up to take care of other business for less than a minute, came back and tried to start it back up and was greeted with the power light remaining orange(or is it amber?), the activity light being solid, not flashing at all, and all three fans within spinning rather fast. Now this has happened before, which is why I had taken to leaving my computer on 24/7, with interspersed restarts every week or so, and I had always fixed it by shutting it down by the power button and letting it sit for a minute or two, then starting it back up normally, and it usually took one or two tries to do it, but it always worked.
Tonight, however, it didn't. I've been trying since about 8:45pm(currently 12:49am) to fix this and nothing's worked. I reseated most of the plugs inside that I could get to, nothing looks like it's exploded on the motherboard, and beyond that I am just clueless. I'm thinking, and worrying, that it might be my hard drive died.
I recorded a video of it, about 20 or so minutes into the issue, showing what precisely I'd been dealing with. The portions of the video that go dark are when I moved my camera nearer to the vents so that you could hear the fans spinning inside. Video
I must apologize for the likely-poorly-formatted wall of text, but that's my issue.
I have a Dell Inspiron 531s, running Windows 7 Home Premium SP1, and a few hours ago I went to do my usual routine of shutting it down and bringing it back up in lieu of the restart option. I also got up to take care of other business for less than a minute, came back and tried to start it back up and was greeted with the power light remaining orange(or is it amber?), the activity light being solid, not flashing at all, and all three fans within spinning rather fast. Now this has happened before, which is why I had taken to leaving my computer on 24/7, with interspersed restarts every week or so, and I had always fixed it by shutting it down by the power button and letting it sit for a minute or two, then starting it back up normally, and it usually took one or two tries to do it, but it always worked.
Tonight, however, it didn't. I've been trying since about 8:45pm(currently 12:49am) to fix this and nothing's worked. I reseated most of the plugs inside that I could get to, nothing looks like it's exploded on the motherboard, and beyond that I am just clueless. I'm thinking, and worrying, that it might be my hard drive died.
I recorded a video of it, about 20 or so minutes into the issue, showing what precisely I'd been dealing with. The portions of the video that go dark are when I moved my camera nearer to the vents so that you could hear the fans spinning inside. Video
I must apologize for the likely-poorly-formatted wall of text, but that's my issue.
