curiousone Posted May 12, 2010 Report Share Posted May 12, 2010 Heres the circumstances surrounding how my old pc died: I went to push the power switch and then I saw some sparks around the switch area and then it wouldn’t turn on no more with the switch pressing. At first I suspected the power switchs broken. So I went to local service center and they told me that could be dust that cause the sparks. I have been leaving the front hood opened.I suspect the motherboard could be broken as well cuz I follow the techicans advice about testing the power switch by cutting the switch wires and touching the metal wires with each other and/or touching the power switch spikes with metal to turn pc on. Neither these methods worked.This ever happened to anyone before? Could dust have a big impact to sparking for pc and killing it? Could overuse be a factor too? I mean it may be kinda old I guess, it was running windows xp. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okeefe58 Posted May 14, 2010 Report Share Posted May 14, 2010 I would bet money on your power supply. there are ways posted on web that you could test it (take it out first, then make a small jumper wire, etc. look it upedit: you also didn't need to cut anything. you could have just jumped the 2 wires at the switch with a wire or clip, etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catgate Posted May 22, 2010 Report Share Posted May 22, 2010 bacause his working power is slow.Slow working power has no effect unless it has a frayed leading edge. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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