Friends' up and died this past week. No nothing when you try to start it. It's a 3-4 year old HP Pavilion desktop model, tower-shaped, proprietary case but not crazy-overstyled.
My question is, how likely would it be to take a "standard" aftermarket power supply?
Thx . . .

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

yank it out and take it to a place that sells ATX power supplies and look.

It might be a Micro ATX power supply but I doubt it. Emachines always used messed up sizes. I agree with Racer X, take it out and ride down to a shop that sells them and compare.

check that the power switch hasn't been pushed too hard and the back half of the push button isn't laying on the floor of the case ?
the switch on the back ?
got another power supply laying around, or another PC to swap test ?

Don't know the innards but my experience with HP DTs is "I don't like them" It is the only brand of computer that has ever died on me.

I have worked on a lot of those Wal Mart specials and they usually have a under rated Power Supply; 175 Watts or so. It is usually a micro ATX size to fit into the small case.
They usually run at close to the capacity of the supply. People try to upgrade the system with a CD/RW and it runs about 30 seconds before self destructing. Replace it with a good +300 wattt micro ATX.

macaroo Wrote:
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> I have worked on a lot of those Wal Mart specials
> and they usually have a under rated Power Supply;
> 175 Watts or so. It is usually a micro ATX size
> to fit into the small case.
> They usually run at close to the capacity of the
> supply. People try to upgrade the system with a
> CD/RW and it runs about 30 seconds before self
> destructing. Replace it with a good +300 wattt
> micro ATX.

So I'm hearing a standard Micro-ATX power supply will probably work-- no "HP special part ##" kind of BS?
Thanks.

(of course I will open it up, when I have it).

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

Racer X Wrote:
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> yank it out and take it to a place that sells ATX
> power supplies and look.

My main (and hopefully only) stop will be Microcenter, but I get up that way -very- infrequently these days so it will be good to know beforehand . . .

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

Take it with you. Their selection is pretty extensive here in Hickville, so I imagine it will be the same in Chicago.

I thought you were in Evanston?

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

Did it just die or were they doing something to it? Reason I ask is, when I was working on my friend's HP, I was trying to upgrade the memory. It took a little finagling to get access to the RAM and somewhere along the line, the connector to the power-up button got disconnected from the motherboard. Took some time figuring out where it went and it could connect a couple of different ways, but I had it back up and running after I figured that out.

Just died. I don't know what they tried to get it working again. Friend was going to bring it by . . . about now.


I'd still appreciate hearing from anyone who may know the answer to the original question.
-h'

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

Here's HP's troubleshooting page for power supply issues, [h10025.www1.hp.com]#

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The Taoist Zhuangzi said, "Good order results spontaneously when things are let alone".
The sociologist, and historian, Adam Ferguson described the phenomenon of spontaneous order in society as the "result of human action, but not the execution of any human design".

Well, I just started it and it and there's no monitor hooked up but it sure looks like it's booting up to me.
Never seen a dead power supply come back to life.
I wonder if someone really really wanted an excuse to buy a new computer . . . there was no hesitancy to buy another HP and there was already a deal to sell the "broken" one to grandma for $500 . . . if it's working fine I guess I'll have to play along and tell 'em I "fixed it"

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman

Thanks for that link, Monster! (denh, denh duh d' duh doo doo doo denh, denh de d' dehhh, *tack* dnng What's the Frequency Kenneth . . .)

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I suffer from the same sensitivity that you do. A few nuggets of wisdom were shared with me and I'm "trying" to incorporate them into my life. First, remember that nobody can hurt your feelings unless you let them. You can always reject what is being forced on you emotionally.
Second, nothing changes unless you change it. If you don't want the behavior to be repeated then you need to take action. Otherwise the kid has learned that his behavior is the way to get things done, because everyone lets him get away with it.
In the meantime I sympathize because I've been there.
-beerman