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PC won’t boot
LockedCame home today to find my PC had shut down. When I try to power it on I get nothing. I press the power button and nothing happens. When I turn the power off then back on at the mains, then power the machine on the lights flicker, the fans run for about half a second, and I get a green light on the motherboard… nothing else though. Pressing the power button again has no result at all, though the light on the motherboard stays on, but powering off/on at the mains again will restart the same process as above.
I have not added any hardware, I’ve tried reseating all hardware, cables etc. Same result. I’ve removed all power leads to the HDD, CDRW, floppy drive. The machine still won’t power on further than the half second.
Any ideas before I replace the power supply?
The PC is only one year old – Athlon 2000+, 256Mb of RAM, 60GB HDD. Running XP home edition.
No warning before any of this happened though the machine has been locking up for brief periods of late, generally only for a few seconds or so.
Many thanks.