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Need help with computer that will not turn on!

Posted on 11/01/2009 3:15:47 PM PST by GregB

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The last time it turned it on it would come on for a few seconds and go off. I would push the button and it would go for maybe 5 sec and then go off.
1 posted on 11/01/2009 3:15:47 PM PST by GregB
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To: GregB

Might be the motherboard. (:


2 posted on 11/01/2009 3:16:31 PM PST by Nachum (The complete Obama list at www.nachumlist.com)
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To: GregB

If you can’t turn your computer on, maybe its just not that into you.


3 posted on 11/01/2009 3:16:44 PM PST by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: GregB
But yet you are still online.

But seriously, is it a laptop? Are the power cables hooked up tightly to your computer?

4 posted on 11/01/2009 3:17:11 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: GregB

Try candles, soft music and one perfest long-stemmed rose!


5 posted on 11/01/2009 3:17:25 PM PST by REDWOOD99
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To: GregB

Flowers?

Chocolate?

Speaking in another accent?


6 posted on 11/01/2009 3:17:40 PM PST by RandallFlagg (30-year smoker, E-Cigs helped me quit, and O wants me back smoking again?)
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To: GregB

Power supply?


7 posted on 11/01/2009 3:17:41 PM PST by Sloth (For the first time in my adult life, I am proud of the International Olympic Committee.)
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To: cripplecreek

Ok that has to be the best reply of 2009


8 posted on 11/01/2009 3:17:55 PM PST by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: cripplecreek

“If you can’t turn your computer on, maybe its just not that into you.”

HILARIOUS! Might be the post of the day so far.


9 posted on 11/01/2009 3:18:26 PM PST by bigred08
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To: GregB

Try power supply from old junker. If not that, motherboard.


10 posted on 11/01/2009 3:18:39 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: GregB

If you have it plugged into a surge protector, try unplugging it plugging it directly into the wall. If you’re lucky, this is a sick surge protector, rather than a sick computer.


11 posted on 11/01/2009 3:18:44 PM PST by GovernmentShrinker
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To: GregB

Were you really expecting constructive help?

You thread title is a low hanging softball for sarcastic remarks.

But I’ll try to help: check the switch on your surge protector.


12 posted on 11/01/2009 3:19:16 PM PST by Never on my watch (The lunatics are in the White House - meet me on the dark side of the Moon.)
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To: GregB
Show it this. Maybe this will turn it on.


13 posted on 11/01/2009 3:19:26 PM PST by Lancey Howard (Go Phillies!)
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To: GregB

Look behind your computer cabinet, is your cat chewing on the power cord?


14 posted on 11/01/2009 3:19:31 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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To: GregB

Dose it make noises are blink at you?


15 posted on 11/01/2009 3:20:09 PM PST by ThomasThomas (I don't have time to Procrastinate)
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To: ez

If you have IBM Netvista style, can also be power switch...(stem breaks off)


16 posted on 11/01/2009 3:20:10 PM PST by ez ("Abashed the Devil stood and felt how awful goodness is..." - Milton)
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To: GregB
I have a computer that will not turn on.

I dated a girl like that once.......

17 posted on 11/01/2009 3:20:53 PM PST by Hot Tabasco (Who's your Long Legged MacDaddy?)
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18 posted on 11/01/2009 3:20:56 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR.....Monthly Donors Wanted.)
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To: GregB
How did you post this?

Sorry -- couldn't resist. What is the OS? Make/model of the machine? Any beeps at all?

19 posted on 11/01/2009 3:22:26 PM PST by MrsEmmaPeel (a government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have)
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To: GregB

1) Surge Protector (Try wall outlet to verify)
2) On/Off button
3) Power Supply
4) Motherboard

Always troubleshoot in order, from cheapest to more expensive.


20 posted on 11/01/2009 3:23:44 PM PST by historyrepeatz
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