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Computer shut down by baby?

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Hurdoc

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I've got an odd problem. My computer is working fine and dandy, and my daughter pressed the power off button while my wife was working on it. Now it just won't start up?! All my peripherals and power seems to be on. I checked my cables and everything seems connected. When opening up my box, I see the LED light on my motherboard is on, but when I press the power on button, the CPU fan flickers for a microsecond and thats all. Everything is dead?
The wierd thing is that the computer was working fine.
 
Pull the power cord at either the wall or computer (whichever is easiest) for a two or three minutes. See if that takes care of it.
 
Bad PSU maybe. Alot of stuff happens during POWER UP/Power Down..it';s possible the PSU has coming to an end and that pushed it far enough to no give enough power to POST (Power on self test). If the CPU fan isn't spinning looks like a PSU poblems or Motherboard.
 
While the power cord is disconnected, pull the battery from the motherboard for a minute or two. Then put the battery back in and then reconnect the power cord. This should reset the motherboard bios and may help.
 
Thank you for all the replies. I have tried unplugging the power cable from the computer for 5 minutes and replugging. Motherboard LED lights up, fan flickers briefly on pressing power button, but thats it. I will try Birdpup's suggestion of taking out the battery as well and see if that works. Maybe it is just coincidence that the PSU blew at that EXACT moment when my daughter powered down the computer?
 
One thing to avoid problems with little kids turning off the computer is to make the front power button only turn off the computer if it is held down for 4 seconds or longer. This mode is enabled in the BIOS of a computer.

Also instead of a "turn off", the computer could be set to do a "soft off" which basically invokes the software shutdown command instead of just cutting the power. You can do that here:

Right click on desktop -> Properties -> Screensaver Tab -> Power Button -> Advanced tab ->Power options.

Hope this helps with future problems. As for current problem, I'd do what the posters have suggested above. Good advice.


 
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