I recently inherited an Acer desktop pc, which had not been used for about 2 years. Yesterday I hooked it up and set about doing years worth of Windows updates which took hours and hours. Eventually, after all the updates were done, I browsed around for half an hour then I shut it down. But then when I came to switch it on today, it was dead. No noise. No lights. Nothing.
I tried changing the fuse, tried using a different plug socket, tried an alternate power cable, but still it was dead. I then opened up the tower and it was absolutely full of dust. I gave it a good clean and even switched out the cmos battery for a new one, after reading online that that could be the issue. Still nothing. Even plugging it in with the side panel off, I could see the motherboard wasn't lit up or doing anything at all. There's just no power getting to anything, it would seem.
So I'm at a dead end now (no pun intended). I'm not really too informed beyond the basics when it comes to computers, so I've done all I can now short of taking it into a repair shop and paying for whatever they come up with.
Does anybody have any ideas what may be wrong? Or any additional things I can try and do myself?
Any and all suggestions very much appreciated.
Thanks.
I tried changing the fuse, tried using a different plug socket, tried an alternate power cable, but still it was dead. I then opened up the tower and it was absolutely full of dust. I gave it a good clean and even switched out the cmos battery for a new one, after reading online that that could be the issue. Still nothing. Even plugging it in with the side panel off, I could see the motherboard wasn't lit up or doing anything at all. There's just no power getting to anything, it would seem.
So I'm at a dead end now (no pun intended). I'm not really too informed beyond the basics when it comes to computers, so I've done all I can now short of taking it into a repair shop and paying for whatever they come up with.
Does anybody have any ideas what may be wrong? Or any additional things I can try and do myself?
Any and all suggestions very much appreciated.
Thanks.