TSGL: Start-button problem

[The Computer Whisperer]

sounds like a broken power button (seriously)

Time for a transplant to a new case, might as well go for the new power
supply at the same time.

Justin

2008/6/17 Computerfee <computer.fee at googlemail.com>:

> Hi there everybody!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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?
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> Have a nice day
>
> Best wishes from sunny Berlin
>
> Heidi
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