My mother's computer is not powering on. It is 2008 Dell Vostro 220 with Vista OS. While it is old model, it was hardly used. She would keep it off for months at a time. I was turning it on at regular intervals to run updates and update antivirus. It might of been left on, sleeping, for some time. Last time we saw it working was couple of months ago.
So today, I pressing the power button ON and nothing happens. There is a led light on the back on the power supply, but power supply fan is not spinning. What can it be?
I am thinking it is either a power supply or computer case switch. The fan on the power supply would not start spinning unless power button on the case is used, so there is no way to tell it is PSU issue. It may be just a switch. I wanted to use a screw driver to power on the computer, but it does not look like modern pins. It looks like internal USB port. So when you unplug the black plastic with wires, there are pins, but nothing marked. So I don't know what pins to short to make it turn on. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
So today, I pressing the power button ON and nothing happens. There is a led light on the back on the power supply, but power supply fan is not spinning. What can it be?
I am thinking it is either a power supply or computer case switch. The fan on the power supply would not start spinning unless power button on the case is used, so there is no way to tell it is PSU issue. It may be just a switch. I wanted to use a screw driver to power on the computer, but it does not look like modern pins. It looks like internal USB port. So when you unplug the black plastic with wires, there are pins, but nothing marked. So I don't know what pins to short to make it turn on. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.