Wife's Computer Won't Start -- Any Ideas?

On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 18:24:27 -0600 Too Much Ying and you will Pay With
Yang then jim evans sent this :

My wife's computer won't start. It's a 4 year old homebuilt SOYO
K7VTA Pro and a AMD 1.3 gHz Athlon. It's been running with no
problems for over a year and only a couple of minor problems before
that.

Here's the background. A few days ago she started complaining to me
that her computer was losing time. As I understand it this happened
in big jumps -- like sometimes the clock simply stopped for a while.
Sometimes a long while, like overnight.

She rarely reboots her computer. It runs all the time, so since she
never turns it off it never needs to be reset by the CMOS clock.

Since we were going to be out of town today, she shutdown her computer
last night. When we got home tonight it was hung/frozen in the
shutdown. She tried to turn it off by holding down the power button,
but this didn't work. She then tuned off the power switch on the back
of the computer. After she turned it back on it will not start at
all. The power light does not come on. It's like a lead brick -
*nothing* happens.

Any suggestion on what to look at/try?

-- jim

Cheap option 1st.Buy and replace the CMOS battery.Usually a 2032 and
you can get them from Wallmart/Asda



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jim evans wrote:
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 01:00:18 +0000, Shep© wrote:

Thanks for replying.

Cheap option 1st.Buy and replace the CMOS battery.Usually a 2032 and
you can get them from Wallmart/Asda

Can the CMOS battery cause problem when the computer is on all the
time?


-- jim

I agree with the earlier poster to switch the CMOS battery as a first
step. It's cheap and easy. I've had weird things happen when that
battery needs replacing. If that doesn't fix the problem, then the PSU
would be the next most likely source of the problem.