I come home and my desktop wont boot.
Fuck. The motherboard is getting power as the lil lcd light is on when its plugged in but el buttono of powero aint doing shit.
It's a dell dimension 8200 any suggestions?

4/9/2006 5:39:53 PM

thats an el cheapo, and you need to give it to me-o

4/9/2006 6:00:46 PM

uh yeah its old and all, but its what i got


i checked the connections and everything seems fine, i removed the battery to reset the cmos or whatever, i dont see anything thats visibly wrong inside...so WTF

4/9/2006 6:04:03 PM

ok here is my serious answer

take all the parts off of the motherboard and pretty much disassemble the entire thing

then put the entire thing back together

i dont know how many times this has worked for me but i'd atleast say 5 or 6

4/9/2006 6:05:38 PM

you're power supply might be dead,

4/9/2006 6:15:30 PM

im thinkin its a ram issue atm


gettin 2 beeps when i try and boot now that ive removed 2 sticks

4/9/2006 6:18:45 PM

ok...got it to post now...
so i shall continue my quest


f u dell x440000

4/9/2006 6:31:29 PM

For future reference

http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/systems/dim8200/codes.htm

[Edited on April 9, 2006 at 6:54 PM. Reason : .]

4/9/2006 6:54:15 PM

had the computer up and running...then it crashed

now its back to doing absolutely nothing when i try and power it on
no fans, nothing.

is it PS perhaps?
its an old ass comp so i mean maybe

4/10/2006 2:47:06 PM