We've all been there, teacher says they've tried everything, checked that everything is plugged in but they still say the computer won't turn on.
Today (Oct 5th 2011), the unbelievable finally happened - their computer ACTUALLY won't switch on - genuine psu/switch/mboard fault!
10 years I've been doing this and its finally happened
Si
Are you sure? Are you ???
Well I took HD out of it and put it in another unit and the other unit works so I think that confirms it
But on the bright side - I've finally got a real hardware fault to investigate - I might even get my multi-meter out
Si
Nah! Don't believe you! You must have forgotten to turn on the mains switch!
Check for any signs of Coffee! I had a teacher once saying her laptop stopped working, it stank of coffee and wouldnt admit that she spilt coffee over it. Dragged it out of her in the end!
Sorry Si but you have lost your powers, you just need one of us to come along and press the power button
SimpleSi (5th October 2011)
Check the fuse....
Its the PSU - cross coupled it from another base unit and it worked - luckily only 2 months old so now the joys of getting FS tech support to believe that I know what I'm taking about and please just send me another PSU
Si
Si
Or beer. Our head of science once spilled beer on his laptop. I replaced the keyboard but I think the damage had been done as it then started to have seemingly random faults, so we made him buy another laptop.Originally Posted by stevenlong1985
or milk had one tacher admit to spilling milk in her laptop and wanting a replacement. Im sory it still works so no
I just had the fun of a psu go -nice to revert to my old electronics test tech days - except for that moment when it blew up of course!
Sad news is, replaced the psu but now have no video signal
Get one of these, no need to get a multimeter on a PSU
PC 20/24 Pin PSU ATX SATA HD Power Supply Tester | eBay
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