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I think mine was an update thing, but also my alarm clock went weird as well, it stopped at 5:57am

I never clean my laptop -is a bad owner-

But it seems to be doing good anyway.

I don't think the dust and like would keep it from turning on. Might prevent it from staying on long-overheating and all. But I don't think it should keep it from turning on.

Do you have the battery in when you turn it on? Or is it just plugged into the wall?

It's a desktop, so no battery. Well, except the mainboard battery but that never comes out XD I'm sure that's no what you were referring to ;)

Well, if the dust builds up enough to overheat something, it can be ruined by the heat, and then it won't turn back on because of that. That's what I suspect, I just don't have the means to find out what it is myself.

I was just asking because if it was a laptop and the battery wasn't in...it could've been the port/charger...but since it isn't...MOTHERBOARD?!

Took it to a repair shop today. I got to watch the guy work on it and the mainboard was dead :/ Made me sad but what can I do after the fact? I bought a used computer from them and they even moved all my stuff into it at no extra charge. It wasn't a cheap resolution but it was cheaper than buying a mainboard and processor and then doing all the work myself to replace it :p Plus I got another hard drive so now I have that extra space I'd been wanting.

Well, at least it ends kind of happy? You had to spend money, but you've got some stuff you wanted and it was cheaper than the alternative. OPPORTUNITY COSTS! -is shot- I've been in college too long since I connect these things now.

But good deal-especially sine they moved your stuff over for free-if you do go to a smaller repair shop....they are more willing to do little things for free since they hope that'll get you to come back in the future. COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE GO!

I hope you didn't get scammed, Serra. I would have been checking the power supply first -- plug a replacement power supply into the motherboard to see if it boots from that, and then if that fails start inspecting the motherboard for individual damaged components (usually capacitors that have swelled or leaked).

Did you think to keep your old RAM? Assuming there are open slots and it's the same kind of RAM you could have gotten a nice upgrade there too.

They probably would've charged extra for taking that out and installing the old RAM. Just saying.

And time=money. And she, to my knowledge, doesn't have the tools to do all that so she'd have to pay them to do it...and that might have cost a lot more. And then the repair or buying the other computer. I know I wouldn't be able to do both.

Thats really interesting sounds like a mother bored problem to me

@Coda, I watched the entire repair process. He tried 3 different power supplies with my computer and it wouldn't turn on with any of them. And yes, he tested the power supplies to see if they were good. I wanted an excuse to upgrade my processor and for what I spent on the new computer I got that as well as another hard drive and a better case. I got to keep all my other components as well. Well, I did let them keep the PCI modem, I didn't need that :p