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Power Supply Failure?
Boris:
My wife was/is computer illiterate. She got her Windows 7 laptop in 2009 at age 67. Uses Firefox to get to Youtube lectures and has very extensive bookmarks. Doesn't email. I liked Windows 7. I started using Start8 and Start10 when I moved to Windows 10. Start10 from Stardock.com is only $5.00 and makes the operating system feel just like Windows 7. Both Stardock products make Windows8/10 look/work just like Windows 7 (which you said your kin is familiar with). Others will tell you there are free add-ons that make newer Windows behave like Windows 7. (I forget their names.) Bottom line: If/when it comes to it, there are ways to work around your kin's trepidation about a new operating system. My wife's transition from Windows 7 to Start 10 18 months ago was seamless when we bought her new laptop. Good luck with the power supply. Hope it fixes your problem. |
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Kirk Bubul wrote in
: Boris: My wife was/is computer illiterate. She got her Windows 7 laptop in 2009 at age 67. Uses Firefox to get to Youtube lectures and has very extensive bookmarks. Doesn't email. I liked Windows 7. I started using Start8 and Start10 when I moved to Windows 10. Start10 from Stardock.com is only $5.00 and makes the operating system feel just like Windows 7. Both Stardock products make Windows8/10 look/work just like Windows 7 (which you said your kin is familiar with). Others will tell you there are free add-ons that make newer Windows behave like Windows 7. (I forget their names.) Bottom line: If/when it comes to it, there are ways to work around your kin's trepidation about a new operating system. My wife's transition from Windows 7 to Start 10 18 months ago was seamless when we bought her new laptop. Good luck with the power supply. Hope it fixes your problem. Kirk, I am familiar with Stardock products, and that's a good idea. Thanks. |
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Power Supply Failure?
Boris wrote in
5.223: 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 After swapping out the old power supply for a brand new one, I had my fingers crossed, but no luck. Next, I suspected the on/off button, so I jumped, but still no luck. BTW, the first thing I did was to look for bulging caps, but all looked perfectly fine. This is as far as I'm willing to go to get this thing running again, I did salvage the memory, the CD and the hard drive (both SATA). There's really no information on this hard drive that's not also on grandma's Win7 laptop, but I will do a comparison. There were no accessory cards. I'll see what grandma wants to do next. I do have a Dell E520 desktop running WinXP SP3 that she is welcome to have. Thanks to all that replied. |
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Power Supply Failure?
Too predictably, the piece of garbage Bestec power supply seems to have taken out the motherboard. This happens all too often. Every time I get a system with a Bestec power supply, I replace it with another, ANY brand, and put the Bestec safely in a pile or recyclables... Ben
On Saturday, October 21, 2017 at 3:56:23 PM UTC-4, Boris wrote: Boris wrote in 5.223: 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 After swapping out the old power supply for a brand new one, I had my fingers crossed, but no luck. Next, I suspected the on/off button, so I jumped, but still no luck. BTW, the first thing I did was to look for bulging caps, but all looked perfectly fine. This is as far as I'm willing to go to get this thing running again, I did salvage the memory, the CD and the hard drive (both SATA). There's really no information on this hard drive that's not also on grandma's Win7 laptop, but I will do a comparison. There were no accessory cards. I'll see what grandma wants to do next. I do have a Dell E520 desktop running WinXP SP3 that she is welcome to have. Thanks to all that replied. |
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On 10/21/2017 8:37 PM, Ben Myers wrote:
I think it's great you are helping a 93 year old keep her mind active. I've set up a few computers for older folks. You can put the icon for solitaire and e-mail on the desk top screen so all they have to do is click the icon after the computer boots up. I like win7 solitaire. You could also put a youtube icon on there and facebook to try to get her using those. |
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Power Supply Failure?
On 10/30/17 5:02 AM, My 2 Cents wrote:
On 10/21/2017 8:37 PM, Ben Myers wrote: Â*Â*Â*Â* I think it's great you are helping a 93 year old keep her mind active.Â*Â* I've set up a few computers for older folks.Â* You can put the icon for solitaire and e-mail on the desk top screen so all they have to do is click the icon after the computer boots up.Â* I like win7 solitaire.Â* You could also put a youtube icon on there and facebook to try to get her using those. Not too condescending, are you ;-) |
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In alt.sys.pc-clone.dell, on Mon, 30 Oct 2017 15:37:46 -0400, Earl Grey
wrote: On 10/30/17 5:02 AM, My 2 Cents wrote: On 10/21/2017 8:37 PM, Ben Myers wrote: **** I think it's great you are helping a 93 year old keep her mind active.** I've set up a few computers for older folks.* You can put the icon for solitaire and e-mail on the desk top screen so all they have to do is click the icon after the computer boots up.* I like win7 solitaire.* You could also put a youtube icon on there and facebook to try to get her using those. Not too condescending, are you ;-) Good point. I"m sure she'll be active no matter what. But otoh, you could put the solitaire, email, and other icons right in the list of startup programs. I've thought of doing that for myself, and I'll definitely do it when I'm 92, in preparation for 93. . I did put the file backup program in the startup list, since I constantly forgot to backup. --- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. http://www.avg.com |
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My 2 Cents wrote in news
On 10/21/2017 8:37 PM, Ben Myers wrote: I think it's great you are helping a 93 year old keep her mind active. I've set up a few computers for older folks. You can put the icon for solitaire and e-mail on the desk top screen so all they have to do is click the icon after the computer boots up. I like win7 solitaire. You could also put a youtube icon on there and facebook to try to get her using those. Grandma wanted us to get her a new pc, saying that when she's 'gone', one of the 12 grandkids will get it,or one of the 12 great-grand kids will. Always thinking about everyone else. So, I got her this: http://tinyurl.com/y9bzeq3m when it was on sale for $360. I set it up on a 27" monitor. I did all the upgrades, and disabled all telemetry that would cause pop-ups or notifications. I also loaded IE11 (which is not automatically shown, as is Edge). I took all unneeded apps icons off the taskbar, including Edge and disabled Cortana. I installed Windows Live Mail 12, which is what is on her Win7 laptop. I did not activate McAfee. I used the McAfee tool to remove it from the machine. The desktop wallpaper is the default blue wave thing, with only a Recycle Bin icon, an IE11 icon, and a Windows Live Mail 2012 icon. She has not yet run into the lock screen with "Do you like what you see" thing. But, if it bothers her, I have a registry hack that will eliminate that. BTW, the same small form factor desktop (Inspiron 3668) with the same specs, is on Black Friday Sale for $329 on the Dell site. It actually is a pretty nice machine for the price and for general use. |
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I think you probably have burnt toast.
I usually bench test the power supply by connecting green to black or what is appropriate for your psychological This turns on power supply and you can test all the voltages When you press the power on it basically does this if in unit and when you power off a SCR on MB turns off connection There is always a signal there from psu to turn on unit. The switch itself on computer goes on atx to the screen circuit That circuit can go bad You can make a jumper so power supply is always on if a bad sensing circuit Also many of these units have video card integrated and if it is bad you will see no post I have had internal video cards go bad on quite a few dell's Sometimes just adding a cheap video card will do the job. The fan in the psu should turn if it is powered on by jumping and the internal fan not the cpu fan should also run if PSU is OK The internal fan is usually not dependent on MBA I would try a cheap video card and use a psu u it set to be on If nothing the unit is toast By the way Ben Hello from . METRONID |
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On Wednesday, November 8, 2017 at 8:57:33 AM UTC-5, wrote:
I think you probably have burnt toast. I usually bench test the power supply by connecting green to black or what is appropriate for your psychological This turns on power supply and you can test all the voltages When you press the power on it basically does this if in unit and when you power off a SCR on MB turns off connection There is always a signal there from psu to turn on unit. The switch itself on computer goes on atx to the screen circuit That circuit can go bad You can make a jumper so power supply is always on if a bad sensing circuit Also many of these units have video card integrated and if it is bad you will see no post I have had internal video cards go bad on quite a few dell's Sometimes just adding a cheap video card will do the job. The fan in the psu should turn if it is powered on by jumping and the internal fan not the cpu fan should also run if PSU is OK The internal fan is usually not dependent on MBA I would try a cheap video card and use a psu u it set to be on If nothing the unit is toast By the way Ben Hello from . METRONID Long time no hear, METRONID! Indeed. The power supply is a BESTEC, with a world-wide reputation for crappiness. Any time I see a BESTEC, I hasten to replace it and make sure nobody can ever use it again. And that's even if the Bestec is actually still working. Not exactly a tribute to product quality... Ben Myers |
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