hi all, my 1st post here.
I have a dell gx260, celery 1.7ghz cpu, 512 meg, 40 gig hd.
sometimes the power switch works fine, sometimes it doesn't work at all. by that I mean it does nothing! no lights/beeps/fans.
it's as though it's not even connected (I checked & it is).
I've seen this before on other systems & I've always tossed the whole box before (minus ram/drives/cpu/fans/battery/cards) but I'm hoping that someone out there knows of this prob & better yet, knows a fix for it.
I rebuild old systems & give them away to schoolkids who are trying hard in class & who's parents can't afford to buy them one. it's mostly old p1 machines, some p2s and the occasional p3, but I'd really like to give something a bit better, like for the top (financially challenged) student of the year or similar.
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Jump to PostWhen you say you checked to see if the power button was connected, do you mean you checked the motherboard itself? or did you check the button assembly in the front panel? when you press the power button, it touches those two wires together, which shorts and causes the psu …
Jump to PostYou may want to contact dell and see what they can do about a new power button. does this computer have a reset button? if so, plug the reset wire into the power button pins on the mobo and try using the reset button to start up. other than that, …
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