its all in the memory, buckhead!

so for the last few weeks, i have been giving up on trying to get a computer i have been using in the past for fs2004 flights and stuff and recently there was a power outage that seemed to have stopped it from turnming on so i tried to fix it with online tools/vids but gave up after a few days and went over to another computer and used it for a while

let me rephrase that, one afternoon the power went off and the computer stayed off, i then tried to reseat

then after a few weeks (yesterday really)  i tried to make it work again and can you guess this, i made the computer turn on and am now talking to you using that computer


I tried

*note- some of thse fixes only fix things partially so try any of these out befiore coming to the abnswer that fixed it... try some of these if others work

*note-if you cant get the green light of the led for the PSU to stay on ior is faint then go get a hairdryer and bliow air into the fan (might need to keep your head back whilst blowing) and watch the littel greren light  become lit stronly and that should save you a new psu and anything you can think of

all of this i did running back and forth from anopyher room on a laptop so i had aklot of excerse!!

-moving the voltmeter from 115v to 210 and tried to start it and found it to be "UNSUCSESSFUL" (only will change anything if you are having a psu issue)

-unhooking up the vga cable and rescrewuing up the bolts that came loose to be "UNSUCESSFULL" (shouldnt hurt the computer if the small bolts that yiou stick the vga cable to suddenly comes loose  and try to tightren them with a tweezers or needle nose pliers, but that didnt change anything)

-taking out what i thoiught was the GPU (graphics) port, looking at the part i took out and realized its not the GPU but the SCSI modem port and resinking/seating it..."UNSUCESSFULL" (for this issue we are looking at the electricl part of the computer and so this may not need to come up unless something probes it to!!)

 -tried hooking up the computer with all the keyboard and simple essential perifrials and still "UNSUICSESSFUL" (keep it simple here but it may not work youll just have to test it out yourself)

- then i tried seating and reaseating the CMOS battery and did that about 4 times to test..(this is a rather necessory idea to check and make sure its seateed because of the sense we are dealing weith an electricval uissue and idicator light gets power from the cmos battery so its really good to check. *note, you can replacve them with a regualr CR2032 battery)

-watched a vbideo on a simple way to fix black screen of death and that was to hit ctrl-alt-del while computer is loaded and to no use "UNSUCCESSFULL" but should work if the keyboard is hooked up

- then i came upon a video which made me look at the computer  and realize that one of my memory sticks/ram sticks was not hooked up propperly and i reseatted that and realiezed (at the same time) another ram stcik was seated but the latches on one end were not pushed in!! ... so i set the little tabs up, double checking to make sure that they are seated rigth and ready to start computer and tried starting the computer up and WOOOOOT baby it works!!

Try to consider saving time by having to check that everything is seated and correct (may have to just hold on to them and jiggle to see that they are seated proprely) and once you are done that jump to focusing on just the memory sticks if all others are tested and work well!. 

You might have just seen where the latter of some of these techniques would save you some money and there is some money to be saved by realizing that most comp[uter tech nerds/helpers on thr net and in stores will tell you to get a new motherboard and a new psu if all else matters ad its possibly good to do that once and a while, BUT!! it doesnt have to be fixed or sold or get a new one... you can just do the ones that are elecectrically based of the ones ive listed and voila you have saved at least $250 or so (in any currency).

Congrats you have gotten this issue sorted out!!

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well that was easy!!

When dealing with power failure or issues with the PSU and there can be a lot of issues that could run you a lot of money that I just found out could save you a  bit of mine...

If you are looking at issues regarding some loose cables or where to install the  PSU to go check out youtube vids, it might take you a while...

 bur if you are here to check out how to do a test to check out if the PC had power then listen up

Check on the back of the computer for where to plug in the power cable/cord and see if there is a green light

the green light shows you that you have enough power to run your computer and if its lit then you are good 

but if you arent, 

cover the light with your hands and  watch to see if anything is showing up, 

like if  it blinks at all, you have something just not strong enough,

if it is brighter but not much is going on then you have power and some of it but it needs to be stronger

so here's what you need to get it stronger

1.Hairdryer

2.brokern computer

3.power from outlet

4.dust mask

take the hairdryer and plug it into an outlet, then aim the dryer at the back end of the computer where the fan is, and watch out for dust bunnies and watch that colored green light brighten and brighten, and once you are certain it's at its brightest, stop the blowing with the hairdryer and voila!!

you should be back in business within no time...

but that's only if this was your only problem with the computer right now

if you find that this helps and works please share as much as you can

When copy and paste dont work...

You may come upon a day where your copy and paste abilities might not work as well as it usually does..


Restarting Computer Option


To fix this just restart your computer and guess what it works!!...but.......


Keeping The Computer On Option


Doing whats listed in the "restarting computer option" can make things unbearable,  if you don't want to restart your computer system and you are working on something that cant be autosave, 

So here's what to do if you don't like doing that...


open up 'services.msc' in any way shape or form
look for clipboard
stop/restart service
go back to pasting whatever you were doing



Works for any windows version after or before WinXP

when that fitbit notification wont swipe away (Android)

So if anyone wants to figure this notification thing that won't let you remove or swipe it away (like when taking screenshots of the lock screen!!) and it's bothering you here are some ideas to help you through it. (P.S. I'm nowhere near calling myself an admin just kinda figured this out on my own...

Sorry for the Length but when google's own algorithm picks this post up or Fitbit lets everyone know... this can might be a place to come and find the answer.

Begin:

It seems that Fitbit wants to mentally mess with us, you can either turn off the weird notification /sync page notification that stays on each day while on the lock screen or you can keep the notifications and get rid of the "keep alive widget" as mentioned above but it looks like you can't do both, which, in turn, bothers me because it would be good to have that as a separate setting in the section...


For those who want to have notifications on and but turn off "keep-alive" (which allows communications and does the background syncing, albeit without syncing any new info or syncing very often). please follow the next few answers...


1.load up your today screen inside Fitbit app


2.scroll down on the area where it says "today" like you were refreshing/syncing


3.tap onto the name of your Fitbit device (ie ionic, charge, etc)


4.and scroll down to the bottom and turn on "keep alive widget"


5.ta -da! you've done it

Windows Search Indexer Exits too quickly

if you still have Windows XP and are stuck with the search indexer and it closes unexpectfully then all you have to do is restart the computer and it will run again!!

But that is where you can go if you don't have any important programs loaded and it should make you happy and I hope it helps but there's a better way that allows you to keep the computer on and keep it on because it's a big "bite in the butt" to have to close down the computer when you have games or word documents running and have to close them down with the risk of losing saves stuff in certain conditions...

So, if you do have important programs loaded then

1. you can just hit the start menu, and "Run" or if you have a shortcut to that you are using please use that, 
2. type in services.msc and hit enter
3. look for  "windows search" 
4. and in the dialogue frame there is links to stop or restart, hit restart on only the windows indexer
5. exit the services program and..
6. start searching again and it will work again!!

That should fix it but it crashes sometimes and here's what you can do when it happens