Windows 7 Windows 7 Installed - 2 hours later my machine is dead; will not power back up . . .

[Bobbyboy]

My story:

Thought I'd upgrade, did so; looked great, seemed to work well. Walked away, came back two hours later and the machine was off. It will not boot, power-up, etc. Totally unresponsive.

Any clue? Please help!!!!! I need to work with this machine, not to mention game.

I will be forever indebted and you will surely receive massive buckets of positive karma.

Thanks in advance!!!

 

[Joe S]

Well upgrades are discouraged because of problems. Will it boot from the disk? You can do a clean install with an upgrade disk. Check this link Windows 7 Clean Install from Upgrade | Owen Consulting - IT & Web support for Small Businesses
Joe

 

[Bobbyboy]

Thanks Joe. Yep, guess I'll skip on Windows upgrades in the future. This was free, and I thought what the hell.*

I'm afraid my machine wouldn't read a disc if I wanted it to. It literally WILL NOT POWER UP. No life, not pulse, no energy, nada, dead, dead, deadski.

*note to self Free Broken Upgrade Custom Install < Working System; refrain in future.

 

[Bobbyboy]

Wait a second, Joe are you a spam bot? Joe are you just posting links to drive traffic? Joe, say it ain't so! I believed in you Joe, just like Windows 7.

 

[Saltgrass]

I really do not think Win 7 would kill your computer. If it is really bad, maybe something just got stressed out.

Could it be in hibernation?

Try unplugging it for a few minutes. Some folks suggest holding in the power switch for about 30 seconds while it is unplugged. I think this is supposed to clear the bios.

I lost one of mine the other day when I was plugging in SATA drives with it shut down. I thought that would be safe, but apparently not. I now turn off the power supply power switch to work on anything.