roman700
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Hello
My Dell 8700 desktop (about 8 or 9 years old) won't power up. When I press the main power on button, nothing happens at all. It has been playing up for a few weeks in that sometimes it works when I press it, and sometimes it doesn't, needing 3 or 4 goes typically.
There is an orange light on inside the case, and the green test button on the outside of the power supply works OK.
I have replaced the button battery, no difference.
Could it be that a new power supply is necessary? If I go that way (don't know much about them), do they come with instructions to point me to where I should plug each mini-plug? They have a lot of wires! One to to the SDD, one to the....etc etc. Maybe it would be more straightforward than I imagine.
The only other symptom I have noticed is that twice in the last few days I've been working and the monitor turned blue! Not a typical blue screen of death with a Windows message, just all blue. The desktop has a graphics card (and maybe eating into the power needs excessively, tho' I think it's a low end one).
I've just taken out the dedicated graphics card, still not powering up.
Any ideas? Wonder if a new power supply is worth a gamble. I wouldn't know where to start, but know I don't want to spend all that much (ideally). It's an old computer.
Thanks.
My Dell 8700 desktop (about 8 or 9 years old) won't power up. When I press the main power on button, nothing happens at all. It has been playing up for a few weeks in that sometimes it works when I press it, and sometimes it doesn't, needing 3 or 4 goes typically.
There is an orange light on inside the case, and the green test button on the outside of the power supply works OK.
I have replaced the button battery, no difference.
Could it be that a new power supply is necessary? If I go that way (don't know much about them), do they come with instructions to point me to where I should plug each mini-plug? They have a lot of wires! One to to the SDD, one to the....etc etc. Maybe it would be more straightforward than I imagine.
The only other symptom I have noticed is that twice in the last few days I've been working and the monitor turned blue! Not a typical blue screen of death with a Windows message, just all blue. The desktop has a graphics card (and maybe eating into the power needs excessively, tho' I think it's a low end one).
I've just taken out the dedicated graphics card, still not powering up.
Any ideas? Wonder if a new power supply is worth a gamble. I wouldn't know where to start, but know I don't want to spend all that much (ideally). It's an old computer.
Thanks.