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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Well there I was playing my game of Guild Wars and all of a sudden black total shut down of my computer. I mean shutdown. lol I tried to turn it back on like when this happens when it overheats and nothing not even a click like that sound you would hear in space...nothing. So I thought it might be my power supply and I always keep an extra so's I puts that one in and walla it boots up like nothing happened. Well I didn't lock everything down (screws and stuff you know that you leave loose when you're messin with your computer). So, I shut down my system and locked everything down and turned it on and a small blueish flash near the middle screw of the mother board appeared for a split second and then the black void of nothingness again. I'm like wow two blown power supplies in one fell swoop? No Way. So's I decide the mother board has some issues and probably need to replace it, it's like 4 years old now. But, before that I decide to clean it up...lotta dust in there after 4 years lol. Nah not really, but, a little, I keep my system pretty clean. So, I get all my brushes, I have toothbrush and shoe brush and barber brush and cleaned it up real good. Radiant and all everywhere. Then I said what the heck it doesn't take that much effort to take it out again and decided to reinstall it and try once more. Welp now it's up and running again an no blueish ligntning bolts running around in there. But, I am getting a "file is missing in your registry had to use a log or previous save to fix" and it boots up and everything is working again....for now.....

Any idea what happened here? Why do I hve a missing file all of a sudden in my registry and better yet what file is it? lol

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ORIGINAL: ravinhood

Thanks for all the advice and knowledge guys. It appears to be ok again after the overhaul I gave it. The video card though is still acting kinda funny. It seems to have issues with being locked down. If I release the screw that binds it to the case it works fines. When I lock it down (tighten it up) it goes blank and nothing loads until I losen the screw and jiggle the board around then everything loads fine (Last time I buy a PONY video card man these things have been nothing but trouble and I've not had a one last thru the warranty so far). lol and Last time I buy a korean motherboard. The first one I had of this series worked great, but, this one has been a pain in my side (an other places lol). This is what I mean about moving to consoles. I wish Matrixgames and a few of the others would move to consoles so I can get rid of this problem child PC. They are bulky take up a lot of space, have issues of some sort with games every other one these days and are loud with the rom whirring and the power supply fan running and the processor fan spurring on and lets not forget when the hard drive(s) are hard at it. lol Come on Matrixgames give us some console wargames. ;)