Rosenberg, Alan [USA] wrote:
Mon, 28 Jul 2008 10:11:01 -0700
My vintage 2002 Dell Dimension 4600 desktop (XP Home) has had a power
supply issue for a while. The power switch on the tower case is a
momentary pushbutton, not a toggle switch. In the past couple of
months, if I turn off power at the surge protector, it takes a while
(minutes to quite a few minutes) for pressing the power on push
button to actually get the system to start up. Just recently, a new
problem has been added. After turning off the system through a
Windows shutdown, it appears that the system is trying to start up
again on its own, without my pushing the power button. However, the
start up aborts after flashing the keyboard lights and trying to
power up the hard drive. This action cycles repeatedly every few
seconds unless I remove power entirely from the tower. Has anyone
experienced anything like this? Is there any power management
software accessible to the user that might relate? Thanks, Alan
I just saw this same sort of thing this week, where the startup process
was undependable and intermittent. We put in a new power supply ($25),
and so far it has solved the problem. FWIW
Richard P.
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