TSGL: Start-button problem

[Computerfee]

Hi there everybody!

 

First time in ages I have a problem with my own computer and right now my hardware guy (my son) has broken is right hand and can't drive, so taking the 1 hour trip by public transport is not possible for him just for fun with his working hours plus doctors visits. My husband is doing the job when he has to but he gives up too easily and knows much less than our son. So I first hope you can help me to find out what can be and what can't. 

 

The problem is that the computer does not start every time I want to start it. To describe this morning which was like most mornings lately but not all - took me about an hour with several breaks pressing the power button again and again before at last it worked (yesterday it was working after just 3 tries). Now don't think, it is only that the button does not work - at first nothing happens when I press the button, then something is happening in the way that you can hear/see a red light in the mouse ticking on and off, same time the blue light behind the start button does flicker same as some red light somewhere in the computer, next step then after having this go on for a while the button suddenly usually starts working most times (by now after pressing it so often for days and days already it sticks quite a little) - result the computer starts properly (I can see/access it from another computer in the house) but without the graphic card, so the screen stays black and the BIOS tells me about a graphic card problem with a long and two short beeps. Then going through this start with the beeping a hundred times suddenly it will start all correct, i.e. the computer starts with the graphic card and I can work.

 

My son insists that the graphic card is loose but I think last time he did some work on the machine he fixed that old problem with the missing screw at the graphic card and so I tried and found the card was sitting tight, so this I think, can't be the problem. I think it is more likely that actually the start button is causing the problem, but is it possible that the start button does leave out the graphic card when starting the entire machine or is there something else going wrong then? And what will I have to do to repair that strange button, if it actually is what is wrong?

 

Have a nice day

Best wishes from sunny Berlin

Heidi