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I am guessing you mean the motherboard CMOS battery.

Here is one place

http://www.cellularfactory.com/wholesale/computer/DELL/4/43460/623191/

Replacing the battery

http://www.dicom-info.com/dicom/dell-pc/GX270-Users-Guide/battery.htm

fan stop working but computer turns on after a couple of mins it shuts down gx270
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cleang ram
repair os

Does anything show up on the screen when you access your BIOS?
Have you tried a fresh install?
Are there two video adapters installed (one integrated and the other in the AGP slot?

This is the driver page for the GX270 over at Dell, go to the Network tab (after selecting your OS) and should need the Intel Network Driver listed there.

If you have any problems please post under this thread so I can further assist you.

Check motherboard for bad capacitors. I had the same problem and when i had bad capacitors replaced everything is ok.

It turns itself off when there is something wrong with it. You can check the system events from the bios menu why it does that. When it doesn't boot at all check the abcd lights at the back.

I don't think you need a new switch. The power "switch" on the front of computers today is a momentary action push button switch. Not a locking or clicking switch as older computers used to have.

Many of today's computers, including the gx270 / gx280 computers from Dell are really always on. You can see the green or yellow LEDs on the motherboards glow when they are "off" (like a sleep mode).

They are in a "sleep" mode until you push the power switch, which sends a momentary signal off to the motherboard to fully power up and turn itself "on".

I think you have something else happening here. When the system tries to power itself up, and detects a severe problem, it will try to automatically turn itself off.

The problem could be a bad motherboard, power supply, memory or processor. It could even be a failed hard disk that is drawing too much power (shorting out) from the supply.

If you had done something to the system, like move it or open it up for an upgrade, etc.. Look again at all the internal connections, and make sure there is nothing rattling around inside that might also be causing a short.

You could try removing all the PCI cards in the system, removing the power and data cable connections from all the disks (Floppy, Hard Disk, CD/DVD) and see if the bare motherboard (with CPU and memory) will boot by it self. If it does boot, then the problem was somewhere in those items and you can replace them one at a time until you find the problem, or if it all works again then it may have been a loose or bad connection.

If you have another machine available, you could try switching the power supplies and seeing if that is the problem.

Good luck!

-Chip

are you trying to install a software? or the cam itself? the cam is a plug and play so you dont neeed software normaly, and the thing about vista is that it does not like alot of programs that are made befor vista wa.

A solid orange light, usually indicates an internal power problem but just in case try reseating the memory. Also its become a habit on a GX270 to check the capacitors to make sure they aren't bulging.