TSGL: Start-button problem

[jonpan]

Heidi,

The power button briefly connects two pins on the motherboard. If you can 
find these, you can check out the operation of the button by briefly 
shorting those two pins.

I doubt if that's the (main) problem. Maybe swap out the graphics card 
and/or the PSU.

Grüße nach Berlin

John
Od/G

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Computerfee" <computer.fee at googlemail.com>
To: "TSGL" <List at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 8:24 AM
Subject: TSGL: Start-button problem


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
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