[PLUG] Hardware failure

Marvin Kosmal mkosmal at gmail.com
Tue Apr 12 06:19:41 UTC 2011


Hi

How many RAM sticks do you have...

A dead stick could do that..

Pull them both out and see if any thing happens..

Good luck
HTH




On 4/11/11, rsteff at comcast.net <rsteff at comcast.net> wrote:
> When I got up this morning and went to check my e-mail, I moved the mouse to
> wake up the screen, but nothing happened. The fan on my desktop machine was
> still running, but the machine otherwise appeared dead. I tried holding the
> power button in, but nothing changed -- the fan kept running. I pulled the
> power cord from the back of the machine and the fan stopped (of course).
> After several seconds, I plugged the power cord back in and tried holding in
> the power button. Nothing happened.
>
> Obviously, something about the hardware has failed. I'll open the box later
> and look inside, but I doubt that will enlighten me very much. Any ideas on
> what to poke at?
>
> TIA.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
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Marvin J. Kosmal

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