Wade Garrett wrote in
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On 10/18/17 2:29 PM, Boris wrote:
Hi,

Machine is a Dell Inspiron 530 desktop, circa 2012, running VistaHP
x86, belonging to my 93 year-old mother-in-law. She called me to day
and said "It's broken".

The power button does nothing. When I hold in the power button,
there's no sound whatsoever. The fan in the back of the power supply
does not spin, but the little green light on the back of the power
supply does glow green, When unplugged, the light goes out. Other
than that, nothing makes a sound, and nothing else occurs.

Here's the power supply:

https://postimg.org/image/4hdxxqbwkr/

Sound like a PS issue?

TIA

For Pete's sake, get her a new computer with a decent operating
system.

Sellers like NewEgg or MicroCenter have loads of nice ones for just a
few hundred bucks.

If money is tight, check out the refurbs NewEgg sells. I've picked up
several over the years and they all have been good.

And if you read the ad descriptions very carefully, you can identify
the ones that are in fact new but have been sitting in a distributor's
warehouse for a year of so and the manufacturer forces him to call
them refurb.


Oh, please. Calm down.

You don't get it, do you?

Money's not an object. Learning a new OS is very big deal for someone
who is completely pc illiterate. All she uses it for is Solitaire and
email. And she doesn't write email, she only reads it.

She also has a laptop running that ancient OS, Windows 7. It's used for
email and solitaire.

I'm familiar withe the 'refurb' market and have owned many, but all from
Dell Outlet. Never disappointed.