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  1. H

    Solved Unusual power-on behavior of desktop PC

    hello, i'm observing strange behavior with my desktop PC during power on. as it happens, the place i stay has intermittent power cuts. without any power cuts, the power-on switch on the cabinet works perfectly fine. in case of a power cut, the PC just refuses to start after the power is back on...
  2. PsyKongroo

    "No signal" on monitor, and PC won't turn off

    Since few weeks ago, my custom desktop started showing a "No Signal" on the monitor when booting, but I usually remove the HDMI cable on both sides and put it back after some forced shutdowns by holding the power button. This morning, the same thing happened again, but after quite a while, the...
  3. RAZE_404

    Pc wont turn on? :/

    Okay so I recently got my first PC, it's an HP Pavilion elite500 y and I wanted to play games on it so I needed a new graphics card, the graphics card I wanted pause 170 more watts then my current graphics card so I upgraded my power supply from 300 watts to 475 Watts, but now I don't know why...
  4. Patrick92

    Solved PC won't turn on, fans and LED's starts for a second then everything turns off.

    The previous day to this post an electrician came over to install ceiling fans and in doing so he turned the power off so without me knowing I tried to turn my pc on and it did what it is doing now, the fans run and leds for about half a second then die. The thing is I had the problem yesterday...
  5. J

    Must disconnect and reconnect battery to power on Acer laptop

    This thread is related to How to avoid having to Power Reset a battery As it turns out, the previous solution only improved my situation. My laptop will now power on without a power reset. But if I leave it off overnight, I have to remove the battery and then put it back in in order to power...