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Hardware failure of some kind?
Hello, I'm having trouble with my computer crashing. My tower has bright blue lights which will help me explain the problem.
About a month ago my son was playing on the tower with a heavy toy car. He dropped the car and it hit the side of my tower after hitting the support the tower sits on from the desk. It just happens that the side it hit is the side with everything on it. My computer crashed and I had to pull everything out and reseat it before it would even go into repair mode. It wouldn't start up in even safe mode. After reseating, everything went fine.
Now I'm running into the problem that if I don't have the one side open all the time it dies. Which leads me to believe it's a heating problem. It runs fine with the side open. My tower has 5 fans in the walls alone. 3 more if you count the fans on the parts inside. Within the last 2 weeks however, it will crash and tries to restart. I have to cut the power to the PSU to turn it back on because it just keeps trying to reboot. Like a car trying to turn over and it just doesn't work. The lights flash and the fans turn on showing that it's trying to turn on, but until I shut off the switch to the PSU and back on, it won't boot up. My old Gateway had a motherboard go out of it and it was similar in which it would light up but not turn on. But as I'm writing this from my computer, I don't think it's a motherboard problem.
Error 11/1/2009 8:30:43 AM volmgr 46
Information 11/1/2009 8:30:36 AM Kernel-Processor-Power 26
Information 11/1/2009 8:30:36 AM Kernel-Processor-Power 26
Critical 11/1/2009 8:30:36 AM Kernel-Power 41
This is the only thing I could find in the time of it happening that is error, critical, the like.
I'm not near the expertise of the people on these forums, but I know a bit about computers. I don't want to take it to a local computer shop until I get feedback from some different sources.
Is the volmgr possible the reason that it's not booting up properly? It crashes from power issues then can't do the crash dump initialization?