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This has been going on for a while now, but now it got worse.
Basically, the startup boton of my PC was a bit irresponsible, having to keep pressed the buttom until the "confirmation light" turned on. But nowadays said light deosn't even twinkle at all, the boton simply doens't work. How do I fix this?
Right now I'm using somebody else's computer, in cas it wasn't obvious.
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Is it a laptop or a desktop? Can you get us pictures to work with? This could be a lot of different things potentially.
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Sounds to me like there's either some hardware damage to the button/wire itself (or possibly a loose connection on the motherboard now that I'm thinking about it) or a bad power supply. I'd start there.
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09-19-2017, 01:12 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-19-2017, 03:46 PM by ZpaceJ0ck0.)
So I just cheked my PC. It turns out that the problem was that the inner workings of it had collected dust and dirt for YEARS. After a cleanup, it now works again.
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Awesome! Glad to hear you got it working!
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Something I forgot to mention is that during my cleanup I checked the button/wire itself in order to see if it was okay, and it was.
I'm mentioning this because today my PC took a little while to turn on despited said cleanup, althought not as much as before. So yeah, I say it is a mix of the dust and a weak power source.
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I'd sort out the power source then. Could potentially be a fire hazard.
