Our desktop system will not turn on. Press the power button and nothing. It shut down last night when we had a power interruption. I did have trouble getting it to tur on Monday when I shut it down so I could shut the power off to install a ceiling fan. I probhad the power supply checked and it tested good. I ran a continuity test on the switch and it passed. I have the hard drive now mounted in an external cabinet so we can access our data.
This is a 10 yr old machine running XP and is the one the wife uses and also the place we keep all our data files and backs up to Norton on line automatically.
I am puzzled what could the the issue. I see not evidence of any kind on the mother board. Like I said it is a 10 yrs old Dell with a quad core processor.
Any ideas of what to check? I really would like to avoid the $550 for a new desktop computer.