Any Ideas?

Would take him at his word.

Maybe this is an advanced CPU. Maybe it does have moving, macroscopic parts developed secretly in Samoa. You put your ear to it and it makes sound.

If not that, every Samoan I have met stateside was large. What they say, goes, or else.

Dubai ain't that far.

Unplug the CPU as you call it and then press the ON Button for about 20 Seconds. Plug it back in and see if it starts now.

If it does the Electrolytic Capacitors in the Power Supply are failing and the Power Supply needs replacing. If it makes no difference look at the back of the CPU and make sure that all of the leads are plugged in.

Pay particular Attention to the Lead to the Monitor as this can look as if it's correctly in but it isn't you need to make sure that it's all the way in and screwed up tightly by hand. Also check the Power Lead to the Monitor this is another lead that can appear to be in correctly but is in fact not all of the way in.

If none of that makes any difference you'll need to post back with the Make & Model of the system.

It's about paying attention and reflect a bit.

There was a time, when I filled-in as teacher (in maths and physics, mainly). The calculators had small keyboards and were a bit unstable. Guess what, several pupils would use the calculator to sum 22 with 46!
And, even worse, they gladly write down the answer that 22+46=1012, if that's what the calculator said...

Make sure you use the TIG only on the bike frame, and not on the son.

That there frame is broken. I can tell.

That's how it goes here, specially when child with parent presents an item.

"Uh-oh!"

"What?"

"This is broken. I can tell."

Kid looks at me incredulously. Kid looks up to parent incredulously. Kid looks back to me. Kid, subdued, nods incredulously.

My power of observation subdues them every time.

I only saw 2 minor cracks in the Chrome Molly frame which is supposed to be unbreakable.

Mind you this kid could destroy Tonka Trucks within a week of getting them so anything is possible.

This is what it looked like before he Broke the Frame.

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/DSC00441.jpg

Actually he didn't break the frame till after fitting Laughing Gas as a way to increase power. OK so the Kit was called a NOS Kit but it's really laughing gas for the motor. ;)

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/DSC02999.jpg

Naturally as this only has 16 Gram NOS Bottles he needed 2 Kits which involved changing the handle bars so he had enough room on the left side to mount the things.

I got a Heat Treated Aluminum Frame to replace the one he broke so hopefully it will last a bit longer.

If he breaks this maybe a Carbon Fiber Frame will be needed but I'm not sure how well Plastics conduct Electricity so there may be a slight problem with the Ignition. :^0

Col

Is made of unobtanium. Soon as they obtain it, I am out of business.

Rarely in my experience has the 4130 been treated and annealed to highest appropriate properties. Same goes for small airframes. It's "as-welded".

Same with 6061-T6. To undergo precipitation hardening, you start with T-zero and join with 4643, then treat to achieve T6. Any subsequent anodizing and the color mismatch screams out at you.

In both cases, if treated, repair welding undoes it. Nobody could or want to afford re-treating the whole thing.

This is known here as psychological metallurgy. I handle cases of that, too.

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pesky numbers

Are you referring to the connection LED on the monitor? It is amber when there is no data stream between it and the computer.

It has been a long time since computers (desktops and notebooks) incorporated amber LEDs.

That said, my Toshiba notebook has an amber LED for the Wi-Fi Link and that is really illogical, IMO.

Edit: Spelling

I suppose as a Mechanical Engineer I should understand that right? :^0

Actually this is a second hand frame that cost all of $50.00/. I'm not spending too much of my money to keep the wife that happy when it's going to get broken anyway. :D

But I got a Red Frame well painter Red at least because we all know [b]Red Goes Faster.[/b] :0

See

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj121/HAL9000_photo/DSC00531.jpg

OK I know the bits that I made out of Aluminum are not heat treated but as they are in Compression Situations that doesn't matter.

However I'm not sure that Injecting Laughing Gas directly into the Inlet Manifold is strictly legal for street use. :D

Col

The easiest way for you to have this problem solved it to take it to a repair shop. They can diagnose the problem and repair it for you.

But if you're bent of doing it yourself, I'd first try replacing the power supply with a known-good supply.

If pure, then did you contemplate concrete?

Of course, it's not pure. You know in your heart of hearts that cyclic torque, involving both tension and compression -- not to mention shear -- plays a not-to-be-ignored role on a street machine. And, that fatigue strength for most relevant alloys is measured in x-millions of cycles -- real easy on the road in the real world.

Of course, as you say, he will probably smash and break it long before then.

Common refrain here: "By the time this fails again, both of us are going to be too old to give a shilt."

Thus is much in the world decided.