before i charge ahead i thought i would check with the experts...
The other day my wife's dell failed to turn on. She leaves it on for days/weeks at a time and the fan noise was driving me crazy so I turned it off. When she went to boot it the next day we got no response from it at all. The start button is doing nothing, no fans spinning, no noises, no nothing. the computer is about 5 years old, is a basic dell model with an intel p4 2.6 or 2.8 gig, windows xp os, and a 250 watt psu.
in looking through the first couple of pages here, i read about the paper clip test... should that be my first step? if i do it do i need to unseat the psu and take it out of the case? or can i simply unplug all the wires from the hdd, fan, optical etc... and give it a try?
If you think i should do something else first, please let me know!!
thanks!
The other day my wife's dell failed to turn on. She leaves it on for days/weeks at a time and the fan noise was driving me crazy so I turned it off. When she went to boot it the next day we got no response from it at all. The start button is doing nothing, no fans spinning, no noises, no nothing. the computer is about 5 years old, is a basic dell model with an intel p4 2.6 or 2.8 gig, windows xp os, and a 250 watt psu.
in looking through the first couple of pages here, i read about the paper clip test... should that be my first step? if i do it do i need to unseat the psu and take it out of the case? or can i simply unplug all the wires from the hdd, fan, optical etc... and give it a try?
If you think i should do something else first, please let me know!!
thanks!