Similar thing happened to me recently. Pull the mobo battery and leave it
out overnight, then see what happens.  This worked for me, whereas shorting
the jumper pins didn't.
Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Ecclestone" Subject: [PCBUILD] dead computer


> Plug in the computer it fires up for about 2 seconds then dies.  If you
> try to re-start it won't.  Even if you unplug the computer, it won't fire
> up again for awhile.  It was working fine at last use.  It was then
> unplugged immediately after being used (and properly shut down) so it is
> not a lightening spike.  You can hear the hard drive fire up briefly.
>
> Not that this should matter but it is a HP 6545C Pavilion.
>
> Suggestions?
>
> Regards,
> Paul Ecclestone


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