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DrSmutt

yes take the switch out and with you and go to maplins and ask for one and see what they say.

wacko911

papito wrote:

Thanks for your reply, but £1?? My PC is a Pavilion 1029.uk and the switch cost £20 including delivery, Could I buy any similar? Where do you think I can buy, mapplins?

If you have any other switches on the front of your PC eg RESET, you could swap the leads over on the mainboard, and use that button to turn on your PC.

Some keyboards have a power on button

Also some BIOS allow you to define a key (or password) on the keyboard to turn on the machine.

In the meantime, a flathead screwdriver touching the two pins on the mainboard that are for the power switch will get your machine started. (if that is infact the problem).

computerwoman

suzy2007 wrote:

that was easy !!! thanks susan

my pleasure

papito

DrSmutt wrote:

yes take the switch out and with you and go to maplins and ask for one and see what they say.

I actually bought a switch at maplins, and cutted the cables from old pc switch and it worked ok. Now I know is the switch so will try and buy it, but been quoted 12.50 + £10 delivery. Thanks for the help on this problem, I willadd an extra problem I have below

papito

DrSmutt wrote:

yes take the switch out and with you and go to maplins and ask for one and see what they say.

I actually bought a switch at maplins, and cutted the cables from old pc switch and it worked ok. Now I know is the switch so will try and buy it, but been quoted 12.50 + £10 delivery. Thanks for the help on this problem, I willadd an extra problem I have below

papito

DrSmutt wrote:

yes take the switch out and with you and go to maplins and ask for one and see what they say.

Managed to find a switch but I needed tu cut the cables from old one and added it to it, Now it is working
I've been quoted 12.50 + £10 delivery for a replacement.

Thanks to all for the advie given, I will add another question after this.

andyrules

Hi

OK, hope someone can help. Just got a second hand laptop (Bought it from known reliable source) for my old mum who's decide to become a cyber grannie - HP - quite old but been working fine, (The machine, not mum!) tried at home, everything fine but she wanted a mouse so shut it down. Went out to buy a mouse and she switched machine on, didn't really know what she was doing and shut it down.

Just turned it on, battery low so plugged in. Now screen is black, light on, fan keeps starting up but cannot switch on or off. Unplugged and brought it home, still doing same.

It's sitting there unplugged, light still on. Would have thought it would just shut down with little or no battery.

Can anyone help please?

Browntoa

did it have xp on it or win98 ??

if xp you may be able to use system restore to go back from safe mode

if 98, see if you can get into safe mode by hitting F8 key on boot up

andyrules

Hi
I'ts XP, but I can't read the screen. How do I system restore? Also, the battery is staying hot!
Thanks

Browntoa

take the battery out, just run it on the power adapter

you do not see the bios boot screen when it turns on then ??