- Jul 9, 2007
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I was hoping to get some advice from the helpful folks at AnandTech in trying to figure out what's wrong with my computer.
I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 4600 that stopped working the other day. It was working fine most of the day, but when I tried to turn it on later in the evening nothing happened. No noise, no power up... nothing. I cracked open the case and made sure everything was plugged in and secure. There is a little green LED light on the motherboard that still lights up when the computer is plugged in so I think the power supply is still working.
Any one here have any idea what could be wrong? I have a suspicion that it could be the motherboard or some kind of defect with the power switches, but I don't know of anyway to tell. The computer does everything I need so I'd hate to just toss it away if there is a simple fix.
Any advice anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!
I have a 3 year old Dell Dimension 4600 that stopped working the other day. It was working fine most of the day, but when I tried to turn it on later in the evening nothing happened. No noise, no power up... nothing. I cracked open the case and made sure everything was plugged in and secure. There is a little green LED light on the motherboard that still lights up when the computer is plugged in so I think the power supply is still working.
Any one here have any idea what could be wrong? I have a suspicion that it could be the motherboard or some kind of defect with the power switches, but I don't know of anyway to tell. The computer does everything I need so I'd hate to just toss it away if there is a simple fix.
Any advice anyone could offer would be greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance!