E Systems PC - switching off and on

MsAnderson

I am having a bad electonic weekend, just posted about duff telly and now I am having a blonde moment with PC.

E System PC - model Ei308. It has two buttons on front, one large with off/on symbol, one smaller with no symbol. When I close down at night, I select shutdown. However, when I come to switch back on, I usually just press larger button (off/on) and the green power light comes on and fan starts, but no red disk light and my screen says no signal. It can sit like that for ages and no disk starts. I then tend to press both buttons until I see red disk light on and screen bursts into life. I have however had the "terminated badly, disk repair necesary" so this is not at all useful.

Have now started to put PC to "sleep" when finished, and a quick press of the off/on gets it going again. BUT I want to properly close it down and not leave it sleeping.

Instruction manual doesn't help - so what am I doing wrong?? Is it a bad case of muppetry...

aerostar

The second button is probably a reset, only to be used if the computer crashes or hangs totally, it resets the cpu, and then on reboot windows will say the machine was not shut down correctly.

You have not said what operating system you have.

Try instead of selecting shutdown from the desktop, push and release the ON button, usually windows will shut down quite happily.

You may have some settings that you can setup to say whether you want the computer to hibernate,sleep or shut down when you press the button, probably found by right clicking in blank space on desktop, then properties, then possible screen saver, then power button, then advanced (XP)

MsAnderson

It's vista, but the problem isn't the closing down. Its the starting up. A single press of the on/off only gets the fan going, no disk action or beep.

fwor

Conceivably this could be an intermittent power supply fault - for example if the PSU brought up the 12V output but none of the others then the fans would run but nothing else would happen.

Another possibility is that one or more of the BIOS settings is set so that the system is only ~just~ stable. This could (theoretically) happen if the PC's memory had been upgraded to an inferior spec. It should be possible to fix this by going into the BIOS setup pages and choosing the "Load fail-safe settings" (or words to that effect) option.

MsAnderson

Will check the bios settings, but looks like I should just take it back.

Thanks for all suggestions.