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Reply 7 of 21 (Originally posted on: 07-23-07 08:25:20 AM)
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Ok, I was on vacation but now I'm back so hoorah for that.
Little more background info, and some answers to questions.
It is indeed a Dell desktop, and it's one of the compact towers, so it's very small. I bought a new video card about a year and a half ago, and it was bigger than my original one. Since I have the small case, the tower no longer closes all the way. Since the tower doesn't close, the fan doesn't go on. So I had some problems with it overheating, but that was rectified with me putting a small regular fan behind the tower, and leaving it open a bit. It worked fine with no problems for over a year.
I had to bring my computer back and forth from college a few times with the tower being partly open, so I wouldn't be surprised if something got messed up en route once or twice.
Quote: If it's the power supply, open the case and smell for smoke. When those things die it's usually fairly spectacular so there should be scorch marks somewhere. I'd check the 4-pin connector that plugs in near your CPU, that's how mine died.
I didn't see any scorch marks, and certainly don't smell smoke anymore. It's possible I smelled something a little bit when this first was shitty, but that might be my memory(in my head, not RAM) playing games with me.
Quote: 1)When you hit the power button on does anything else turn on such as case fans or the fan over your processor?
Nothing at all really turns on. No fan or anything, but then again, my fan didn't turn on even when my computer did after I installed the video card.
Quote: 2)Does it make any beeps?
Not a peep, and I don't think there are lines of lights on my motherboard. Usually just a solid orange, I believe.
So what should my course of action be? Should I bring it into best buy or some other shop and just say "This doesn't work, please find out what's wrong"? I'm not entirely adverse to getting a new computer, but if I could fix this one relatively cheaply, I'd prefer that. I would certainly like to keep a lot of shit I have stored on it.
By the way, thanks everyone for the response so far.
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