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    Dilemmas upon dilemmas (Desktop fails to boot / POL-2059 )

    Two entirely separate problems here; I'd ideally like to solve both of them.

    Problem #1!

    I woke up this morning and pressed the power button on my desktop, thinking I'd browse me some BG before going out and actually doing something. Fans whirred, power lights ignited, but the monitor said "No input detected". Thinking this was a monitor problem, I hit the CD and DVD drive buttons, only to be met with an uncooperative silence and stillness. Basically, I don't think anything's working. The desktop's an old Acer Aspire bought in the winter of 2004-2005, slightly modified with a better graphics card (well, it was better in 2005) and a CDRW drive on top of the factory-installed DVD drive. Sticker on the front claims that it's an AMD Sempron inside. Should run Windows XP Home Edition. What's a cheap way to diagnose and fix whatever's causing it to not work?

    Problem #2!

    As the desktop failed to work, I plugged my brand-spanking new laptop into the internets. As I'm posting on forums no problem, I thought all was good. Then I tried logging in to PlayOnline and Ventrilo. Playonline gives me POL-2059 error, despite the fact that McAffee and AdAware confirm that I don't have any spyware. Hell, the thing's so new I've not even browsed any porn on it. Ventrilo gives me "MSG: Contacting Server" indefinitely. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1720 running Windows Vista. I've disabled the firewall, but still no dice. I could log on to FFXI just fine back at my mum's house on a wireless connection even with the firewall running, but here in London on a wired connection it seems I'm out of luck. The same wired connection worked for my desktop, but the desktop is, as noted above, experiencing a significant utility deficit. The problem therefore lies within the settings inside my laptop. Vista Network and Sharing Center has my settings listed as:

    Access: Local and Internet
    Connection: Local Area Connection
    Network Discovery: On
    File Sharing: On
    Public Folder Sharing: Off
    Printer Sharing: Off
    Password Protected Sharing: On
    Media Sharing: Off

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    Re: Dilemmas upon dilemmas.

    I woke up this morning and pressed the power button on my desktop, thinking I'd browse me some BG before going out and actually doing something. Fans whirred, power lights ignited, but the monitor said "No input detected". Thinking this was a monitor problem, I hit the CD and DVD drive buttons, only to be met with an uncooperative silence and stillness. Basically, I don't think anything's working. The desktop's an old Acer Aspire bought in the winter of 2004-2005, slightly modified with a better graphics card (well, it was better in 2005) and a CDRW drive on top of the factory-installed DVD drive. Sticker on the front claims that it's an AMD Sempron inside. Should run Windows XP Home Edition. What's a cheap way to diagnose and fix whatever's causing it to not work?
    Is it POSTing at all? As in, is it giving that little happy beep (assuming it normally does), or is it just turning fans n' lights on?

    As with a couple other posts here recently, the place to start with this is to ensure that all your internal cards, RAM, etc are seated properly. If they seem to be, pull out extra ones. One stick of RAM if you have multiple, and if it doesn't boot, try another single stick.

    Your motherboard may also be in a safety mode from a power surge or something. Unplug the power cord from the back of the computer, and remove the CMOS battery (usually a coin like battery) for 10-15 minutes, then put it them back in and try it.


    As the desktop failed to work, I plugged my brand-spanking new laptop into the internets. As I'm posting on forums no problem, I thought all was good. Then I tried logging in to PlayOnline and Ventrilo. Playonline gives me POL-2059 error, despite the fact that McAffee and AdAware confirm that I don't have any spyware. Hell, the thing's so new I've not even browsed any porn on it. Ventrilo gives me "MSG: Contacting Server" indefinitely. The laptop is a Dell Inspiron 1720 running Windows Vista. I've disabled the firewall, but still no dice. I could log on to FFXI just fine back at my mum's house on a wireless connection even with the firewall running, but here in London on a wired connection it seems I'm out of luck. The same wired connection worked for my desktop, but the desktop is, as noted above, experiencing a significant utility deficit. The problem therefore lies within the settings inside my laptop.
    Does anything network related work? If you're not getting out at all on it, I would check to make sure that you don't have a static IP address set. Depending on how your connection is set up, you might have access restriction based on MAC address as well. Open a command line and run ipconfig /all, which will list your network interfaces and what IP addresses and the like they have. Should be able to get a good idea if a basic connection is established at all.

    Generally, removing the interface from the hardware list and having it get redetected will reset everything to default for it. So you could try that, unless of course the problem is that the default settings don't work for your connection.

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    Re: Dilemmas upon dilemmas (Desktop fails to boot / POL-2059 )

    It's not bleeping. The fan's just whirring. Everything inside seems to be where it should be and seated properly. I don't have multiple RAM, so do I remove my only one?

    I've removed the CMOS battery, didn't work.

    As for the laptop, well, browsing works. ipconfig /all gives me a wall of text which I don't understand, including "Ethernet adaptor Local Area Connection" and "Tunnel adaptor Local Area Connection* 6", from * 6 to * 11.

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    Re: Dilemmas upon dilemmas (Desktop fails to boot / POL-2059 )

    It's not bleeping. The fan's just whirring. Everything inside seems to be where it should be and seated properly. I don't have multiple RAM, so do I remove my only one?

    I've removed the CMOS battery, didn't work.
    Hmm, odd that your drives wouldn't even eject, but you are getting power to the fans. Since they should be powered directly as well, the drives should do something. Possible that you have fan-only plugs on it and others aren't working. Are the access lights for the optical drives lighting up at all? Hard drive spinning up? Or only the fans?

    If you have another power supply to test, it might be good to try that.

    As for the laptop, well, browsing works. ipconfig /all gives me a wall of text which I don't understand, including "Ethernet adaptor Local Area Connection" and "Tunnel adaptor Local Area Connection* 6", from * 6 to * 11.
    Might try disabling IPv6, it seems like that can cause issues sometimes. http://www.howtonetworking.com/vista/vistaipconfig.htm has a step by step.

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    Re: Dilemmas upon dilemmas (Desktop fails to boot / POL-2059 )

    Well, after dicking around with the settings and developing an immense hatred of Microsoft's latest product, I'm still unable to connect to PlayOnline on this otherwise state-of-the-art lapthing. Here's my ipconfig /all and POL error screenshots. Any further advice? Oh, and disabling IPv6 didn't work either.

    http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...v/POLerror.png[img]
    http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...yanov/2059.png
    http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t...v/ipconfig.png

    I managed to leech a wireless network during a lecture today, and logged in to FFXI... it's a little depressing that I can't do it in the comfort of my own home. Also, if Linkx is reading this, fuck you for telling me to get on vent and making me laugh in the middle of my professor's answer.

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