TSGL: Start-button problem

[Computerfee]

Hi there everybody!

tried something else now before trying to get the machine out of its place -
left the power button of the socket on all night, so the computer was
switched off but it was as if the computer plug was in a normal socket,
being able to suck power all the time if it actually should do such when
being switched off. And this morning now it went on without a single bit of
a problem - just pressing the power button once and it did boot with monitor
and all! So what does that mean - battery is empty, or the power
supply actually is the problem?

have a nice day
Heidi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "The Computer Whisperer" <justin at whisperer.com.au>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2008 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: TSGL: Start-button problem


> 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!
>>
>> 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