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Question

All Ports Disabled

Sep 4, 2016 7:04PM PDT

I have a Windows 10 computer that is only about seven months old. Today I turned on the computer only to find that every input port is disabled. All USB ports, the DVI port, the speaker jack, the keyboard port.... I am baffled as to what could be going on here. My only thoughts are some sort of virus, or maybe some sort of crazy security protocol installed on the computer. I'm not the primary user of the computer and he is unreachable so I can't asked if he has installed anything new like that.... if that even exists! I've never heard of anything like this before. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have not idea what to try since I can't even turn on a monitor to see what's going on!

Thanks!

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Answer
This sounds more like the dead PC.
Sep 4, 2016 7:34PM PDT

I've yet to hear of it being ports disabled. But let's go with that. Your PC needs help. But at 7 months it's in warranty. This might be a test of your backups since some warranty systems wipe the drive or exchange the entire PC.

Given 2+ decades of folk writing to backup your stuff, are you ready?

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Custom Built
Sep 4, 2016 8:32PM PDT

There isn't a manufacture's warranty on the computer as a whole since I built it myself.

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As a builder you now get to either
Sep 5, 2016 7:55AM PDT

Dive in and find what's failed or take the steps you would when you built it and it didn't work.

"The Dead PC" on google has many discussions about working with a dead PC so there's usually no need to repeat that.