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Topic : Computer Expert |
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| Doncaster Slim |
Does anyone know a local computer expert. Mine won't start up, if i push the button the lights come on, but go out when i take it off. Any ideas ?? Don.. |
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| jonno |
This is quite hard to diagnose without seeing it. When you press and hold the button in (for a few seconds) do the fans start up and does the computer start to boot? Do you see anything on the screen? Is it making any beeps, if so how many and in what pattern? How old is the PC? It could be so many things from a dead CPU to a bad mobo or just a bad power supply unit. Are you up to opening the case for a visual inspection? If so are any of the capacitors on the main circuit board (the little tin can shaped things) looking a bit bulgy? If so bad caps have killed your Mobo. There is a local firm that's had quite good reports, can't recall their name tho, maybe Peter will wade in with it. |
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| greengrass |
Its your swich  |
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| jonno |
It's unlikely to be his switch GG  it's a "momentary push-to-make" switch and only powers the mobo long enough for it to signal the PSU to turn on fully and start booting the PC.If I had only 1 guess, probably PSU died. |
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| Doncaster Slim |
I replaced the power supply, Had a spare one. I disconected everything & reconected. I think i have one cap that looks bulgy  . so i think its the board. thanks Jonno & greengrass. |
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| Peter |
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| grandson |
My guess is that if you are not even getting any bios screen informing you of a fault then the motherboard is likely to be at fault. This could explain why the computer does not turn on! |
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| Doncaster Slim |
I hope your right, ive just gone and bought a new one, |
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| jonno |
hi, if it's XP and you change Mobo it might go mental, it's a bit hard to prevent now since you can't boot it anyway, but the safe way to swap mobos on XP is to remove all drivers relating to the mobo, switch off, swap boards and re-boot, install drivers for new mobo, bingo, profit!! Because you haven't been able to do this you might have probs when you boot with the new mobo, unless you've bought an identical one to the old one. You will probably get BSOD (blue screen of death) and need to boot from a win XP CD and do a re-install. The good news is this will normally just fix your existing install and leave all your programs and user data intact. |
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| Doncaster Slim |
They don't make the mobo I had so I upgraded with a bare bones set up from ccl, When i switched it back on it worked fine, After about 5 mins a popup said "there has been a considerable change in your hardware, do you want to revalidate XP". said yes, and alls OK so far,, |
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| jonno |
that's fantastic news. you probably got a mobo from the same manufacturer or with the same chipset, ie Nvida, Ali, Intel so the same mobo drivers will work OK. |
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| kwebs47 |
Try David Broadhead, phone:652763. I thoroughly recommend him and he will not rip you off. |
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