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I always leave my PC on.I left for holidays and turned off. Now it will not turn on. Replaced power supply still nothing. There is a yellow light on on the motherboard. Please help
Name: jefro Date: August 10, 2009 at 18:48:20 Pacific
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Would you leave a 300 watt light bulb on 24x7x365?
You can turn them off you know. Heat and electron flowing causes electronic devices to fail.
Is the power supply actually getting the power on signal from the button through the board?
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, Make an autorun.inf folder on all usb drives.
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Response Number 2
Name: bigshuutz Date: August 10, 2009 at 18:56:01 Pacific
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Well when you put it like that no. I just see computers left on all the time at work and figured it wasn't a problem. As for the question you asked. How would you suggest checking for that?
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Response Number 3
Name: MWCC Date: August 10, 2009 at 22:28:40 Pacific
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FYI "CPU won't power up" is not correct, the CPU is a piece of Silicon.............................
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