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by trav84

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Hi,
Ive got a few questions... I have a Gateway GT4022, and it is giving me some power on problems... First of all this problem is random so it doesnt happen all of the time, but about 70 percent of the time. Computer is plugged in and as soon as it is plugged in PC tries to boot up, nothhing happens... Fans are turning, monitor doesnt come on, blue power light doesnt come on just the little orange led below that flashes. You hear it try to boot up but nothing comes on screen... Called gateway they told me to reseat my RAM and clean the ram slots and disconnect all hardware and plug all back in... Did that and still had the same problem. Note: when holding in power button pc seems to shut down ie.. fans turn off ect like its supposed to... So after last night i was frustrated and i unplugged the power cord from the wall... This morning i wake up and plug the power cord back in and the blue power button led comes on and pc boots up normally... What the heck!!! But I know as soon as i turn it off it probably wont boot up again... Is there a problem with the power switch that could cause it to do this? Please help me!!!

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by willcomp

You most likely have a weak capacitor in power supply that does not fully discharge until power cord is unplugged. Could be a motherboard capacitor as well, but more likely power supply.

Try another power supply and see if that fixes the problem.

by shasca

How old is the battery? I've seen laptops here act like this when the battery was starting to fail.

Try taking the battery out unplug the Laptop and let set for several hours. Replace the battery and plug laptop in and watch to see if it will fully charge again.

Get back to us with the results for further diag.

by dersecomputers

I would check the power supply. I've seen several power supplies produce the same symptoms before completely failing.

by oh smeg

BIOS Battery but as it is a Gateway and they have very weal Power Supplies I would say it's the Power Supply going faulty.

The Capacitors in it are breaking down. You also need to know that the On Button doesn't switch anything on the PS is working all the time that it is plugged in and the On Button causes a Ripple on a 5 V Line that causes the unit to Switch On.

If it is Under Guarantee you can get Gateway to repair it but if you have to pay for the repair buy a Power Supply elsewhere and fit it. They are better PS and generally speaking offer better protection to the insides of the Computer. Heck go the whole Hog and buy a Good PS they are not expensive and are far Superior to the crappy PS's that Gateway Supply. Something like a Zalman or Antec PS is what you really want.

Col

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