Computer Wont Turn on at All - Troubleshoot Your Problematic PC

You cannot turn on your person computer. You could not open a compact disc read only memory drive and kept pushing a blue button in order to turn it off to no avail. Then you disconnected a power cable and connectied it again into a wall power socket.

Still after pushing a power button it would not come on. You can disconnect a power cable from that wall socket and your computer. You will want to press that computer's power button for a minute.

Then you can plug back that power cord into a wall socket and into your computer and see if it will power on successfully. You can try using a different wall outlet. If your up for it, I can walk you through disconnecting and connection again some cables and performing some troubleshooting steps.

This would require you opening that computer case. When you plug it into the wall outlet and press a power button do any lights at all turn on, even lights on the back of it? You will want to follow these instructions for opening the person computer case of your Hewlett Packard computer.

You need to only remove the right side panel. Once you remove that right side panel, you will want to disconnect the large power cable from the power supply from the motherboard. You can disconnect a power cable from a wall socket too.

Press the blue power button on front of that computer for a minute. Then, plug a power cable from a power supply back into a motherboard. Now plug power that cable back into wall outlet and try to power on that computer. You might have to press a blue power button for a minute in order to drain any electricity built up known as electro static discharge.

You will want to press a blue power button for a minute to drain any electricity. Then plug a power cable from a power supply back into a motherboard. Now plug a power cable back into a wall outlet and try to power on that computer. I think most likely that computer has a bad power supply if it still will not power on.

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You could try disconnecting as many devices as possible, for example hard drive, compact disc read only memory drive, floppy drive, random access memory, etcetera in order to see if it is a failing component. Do any fans turn on or does that computer beep at all? You do not have to wait a minute if you disconnect any of those hardware device power cables.

Yes, you can test one at a time in order to try to narrow down what device might be failing. You can try disconnecting all those white power cables except a motherboard one and see if it will power on. You will want to disconnect all the smaller white power cables from their devicesfor example hard drive, compact disc read only memory, floppy drive, etcetera.

Those would be ide cables. You can disconnect it as well. Well it is possible it is a bad motherboard or power supply.

The random access memory is located right next to that large white power motherboard cable. You may want to take it to a computer repair shop so that they can diagnose it fully. Some might diagnose it for free.