no power at all!

[anita]

my computer isnt reacting at all to me pressing the power
button.

i haven't installed any hardware but my cmos battery has
been giving my problems.
>-----Original Message-----
>I left my computer on over night, and this morning it
isnt
>powering up
>
>what can my problem be ?
>
>is it my cmos battery or my power supply?
>
>thanks
>anita
>.
>

[Perdita X. Dream]

anita wrote:
> my computer isnt reacting at all to me pressing the power
> button.
>
> i haven't installed any hardware but my cmos battery has
> been giving my problems.
>> -----Original Message-----
>> I left my computer on over night, and this morning it isnt
>> powering up
>>
>> what can my problem be ?
>>
>> is it my cmos battery or my power supply?
>>
>> thanks
>> anita
>> .

How do you know the CMOS battery's been giving you problems when you don't
even know what it is? The computer, as I stated before, wouldn't refuse to
power up because of a dead CMOS battery. Suggest you take the system to a
qualified technician - *DO NOT* attempt to do anything yourself as you could
end up doing further damage as it's blatantly obvious that you don't know
what you're doing.

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[NoNoBadDog!]

you power supply has died. A CMOS batt will NOT prevent a boot. You need
to seek assistance from someone that has more knowledge of computers than
you do. Your post indicates that you are not very computer literate, and
you may things worse by mucking about.

Bobby

"anita" > wrote in message
...
> my computer isnt reacting at all to me pressing the power
> button.
>
> i haven't installed any hardware but my cmos battery has
> been giving my problems.
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I left my computer on over night, and this morning it
> isnt
> >powering up
> >
> >what can my problem be ?
> >
> >is it my cmos battery or my power supply?
> >
> >thanks
> >anita
> >.
> >

[Perdita X. Dream]

NoNoBadDog! wrote:
> you power supply has died. A CMOS batt will NOT prevent a boot. You
> need to seek assistance from someone that has more knowledge of
> computers than you do. Your post indicates that you are not very
> computer literate, and you may things worse by mucking about.
>
> Bobby
>
> "anita" > wrote in message
> ...
>> my computer isnt reacting at all to me pressing the power
>> button.
>>
>> i haven't installed any hardware but my cmos battery has
>> been giving my problems.
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> I left my computer on over night, and this morning it
>> isnt
>>> powering up
>>>
>>> what can my problem be ?
>>>
>>> is it my cmos battery or my power supply?
>>>
>>> thanks
>>> anita
>>> .

Isn't that - more or less - what I just said;o)...I'm not sure it is the
PSU - she didn't answer my question about whether it spins up or not...;o)

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[NoNoBadDog!]

Yes..you said it first...however my news feed service was down with a server
outage for a while and didn't get caught up right away. I hope for the OP
that it is just her PSU, as that is an easy fix.

Bobby

"Perdita X. Dream" > wrote in message
...
> NoNoBadDog! wrote:
> > you power supply has died. A CMOS batt will NOT prevent a boot. You
> > need to seek assistance from someone that has more knowledge of
> > computers than you do. Your post indicates that you are not very
> > computer literate, and you may things worse by mucking about.
> >
> > Bobby
> >
> > "anita" > wrote in message
> > ...
> >> my computer isnt reacting at all to me pressing the power
> >> button.
> >>
> >> i haven't installed any hardware but my cmos battery has
> >> been giving my problems.
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> I left my computer on over night, and this morning it
> >> isnt
> >>> powering up
> >>>
> >>> what can my problem be ?
> >>>
> >>> is it my cmos battery or my power supply?
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>> anita
> >>> .
>
> Isn't that - more or less - what I just said;o)...I'm not sure it is the
> PSU - she didn't answer my question about whether it spins up or not...;o)
>
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> Perdita X. Dream
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[Perdita X. Dream]

NoNoBadDog! wrote:
> Yes..you said it first...however my news feed service was down with a
> server outage for a while and didn't get caught up right away. I
> hope for the OP that it is just her PSU, as that is an easy fix.
>
> Bobby

I hate top-posters - Robert, please learn to bottom post - there's nothing
so illogical as top posting! ;o)

The thing is though, there are PSUs and PSUs (as I know from personal
experience with a client's system. She had a dime store power supply that
had failed - and taken the motherboard, RAM, CPU and graphics card with it.
That little bit of 'economy' ended up costing her £450 in replacement
parts). If it was a decent PSU (Enermax, Antec and there is another, more
expensive, brand that isn't available over here that I forget the name of)
then its fail-safe mechanism would have kicked in and it would have died a
graceful death - sacrificing itself for the sake of the rest of the system.
However, if she had a dime store PSU then she may not fare so well. This is
why, if anyone asks me to put a system together for them, I always budget
for an Antec PSU - not cheap (+/- £60), but it'll save a lot of money and
grief in the long run.




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