DEll comp help

Kllrnohj · ☢ PH34R |\/|3 (Posts: 8196)

*the. You seem to have developed an obsession with the non-existent word "teh" - please stop that. Its "the".

Any who, sucks to be you then. If unplugging it and plugging it back in doesn't work, and you get no response whatsoever from the power button, then something is dead.

List of suspects:
PSU (easy to test)
Power button (easy to test)
Motherboard (not so easy to test)

To test the PSU, all you have to do is jump it. Open up the computer, find the 20 pin cable going to the motherboard from the PSU. Then, find the only green wire, and using a bent wire (paperclip works great), connect the green wire to any black wire (there should be a black wire right next to it). If the power supply is plugged in and turned on, you should now hear the fan spin up (and anything connected to it should turn on - such as other fans). If they don't, then you are either A) jumping the wrong pins, or b) you have a dead PSU

To test the power button you can use something like a multimeter (or a AA battery with an LED works) - it should be a momentary switch (aka, it only completes the circuit when pushed in)

The only way to test if it is the motherboard or not is if you have a spare PSU you can try it with....

Harq · Calculator Deity (Posts: 1857)

its ok, We all do it at some point, I did it for a while but now I don't anymore, just focus a little bit more when typing Wink

Kllrnohj · ☢ PH34R |\/|3 (Posts: 8196)

I guess, but then what the hell does this mean? "The LEDS's register that the system is not on" - I assumed it meant all the LEDs were off o.0