Just got a dell gx280, second hand ex office equipment, been "Cleaned"... got it home plugged it in and it wont boot up at all.
I get an amber power light but it never actually powers up. just goes on and off a few times the stays off until i press button agaian then same.
Whats goin on???
Please help!
The Dell GX620 as well as SX270/280 GX280 computers are a few models of many
that suffered from Faulty Capacitors on the motherboard which regulate
power supply. When they totally fail, about 4-6 of them on the board,
the power light will be orange and the system will not post. Other
systems also include reaching a BSOD (Blue Screen of Death) before
Windows loads, or even random BSODs while running windows.
IF you have
decent soldering skills, you can order capacitors from badcaps.net and
replace the 2200uF 6.3v caps on the board and the system will start
fine.
I have done about 40+ such repairs can confirm with 90% confidence this
is the cause of your orange power light and non-booting issues.
An Amber blinking power button indicates a low voltage problem. This can be caused by a defective power supply or a defective motherboard. Just to make sure that nothing else is causing the problem, remove any PCI cards like modem, video card, sound card, etc... Remove the memory modules and disconnect cables to CD/DVD drives. Look at the USB ports to see if any are damaged.
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It's the same except the orange light is steady and the Hypercool fan goes like crazy. Nothing else happens.
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