At all. I've just moved across the country, so I haven't used it in two weeks. I'd just set it up, tested my monitor and printer to make sure the power supply worked, went to turn on the computer and... nothing happened. Now, I'd had problems with it before we moved, the HDD was a little fried (I think), and there was some sort of driver problem in Windows which I was unable to fix on my own, so I'd been running in Linux for several months. Even so, when I'd had difficulty with it before, I at least got a fan going and some grinding, painful noises out of the computer. Yet now, all I get is a little 'click!' when I press the power button. That's all. I've opened it up, checked all it's connections, they seem fine.. so is it just plain dead, of is there something else I can try before I put on the steel toed boots and kick it into the St. Lawrence River? Advice would be appreciated, ~Asenath

Running a computer with a burnt piece in it can slowly damage it untill it stops working. If you're sure that all connexions are okay then check if all your boards are plugged in. When your run it, do you hear the fan? Do you hear a little beep after some seconds? Then your graphic card's not plugged. Did you check if your processor and memory were okay too? Because without one of them the computer can't really start at all. If you're really sure that everything's okay, then one of your pieces is damaged. Try to recicle as many pieces of your computer as possible (your hard disk is a good example of what to keep if you have important work to save) and build a new one. Building one's usually cheaper than buying one, even if you have to buy some new pieces, but if you don't want to, well buy a new one, but as I said it's better to keep your old Hard disk if you have stuff to keep.

Thanks, I've got it running now, but it's eight years old, and so's all the hardware in it, except the graphics card (which is only... what, four years old? :P) So I'm not planning on keeping any of it. It's just trying to keep it running for another month until I can get a new computer.