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Erdrick
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_ 		27. June 2009 @ 17:41 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
A friend of mine has a PC that one day suddenly died on him. The main hardware is a Core 2 Duo with a Gigabyte motherboard. He showed me that if you pressed the power button, the fans would spin about half of an inch before stopping... then nothing. We got a new power supply, as his was old, and still the same problem.

Has anyone ever heard of something like this? Where should we go from here in troubleshooting?

I am thinking that there may be a problem with the power switch on the case, and that the wiring from it might possibly be bad...
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ddp
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_ 		27. June 2009 @ 21:01 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
look at all the silver topped cans on the motherboard which are capacitors that they are flat topped not domed & not leaking brown stuff. look at motherboard manual to find which pins are the power button pins & short them using a screw driver. remove all cables to drives. remove all cards & ram. reseat videocard & 1 stick of ram. clear the cmos as have found that to kickstart stubborn systems sometimes.
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Erdrick
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_ 		28. June 2009 @ 18:27 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Thanks -- I will try the suggestions that you made.
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