On 1/10/2013 2:19 PM, Richard C. Steffens wrote: > My test machine, a Gateway E-4500D that I got a couple of months ago at > Free Geek, has developed an odd power problem. I had it on, and wasn't > paying attention to it. I turned to it and move the mouse to bring it > out of power saver mode, but nothing happened. It runs very quietly, > once it's on, so it didn't occur to me that it was powered off. > Eventually I figured that out. However, when I push the power button > nothing happens. I pulled the power cord out of the back, waited a few > seconds, put it back in, and pushed the power button. The fan comes on > loud, which it usually does when the power cord's been disconnected, but > the machine doesn't start to boot, and the blue light in the middle of > the power button does not light.
Swap out power supplies. A power supply produces several different voltages (+12, -12, +5) that feed different subsystems. One of these may be bad, so the place to start is with a different power supply. One test you might try before that is disconnecting power from every internal device (hard disk, floppy, DVD) except the motherboard to see if you can get to the BIOS. -- Jim Garrison ([email protected]) PGP Keys at http://www.jhmg.net RSA 0x04B73B7F DH 0x70738D88 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
