Posted on Aug 20, 2008

I have a flickering amber light on the power button; replaced power supply and motherboard with no luck

I have a Dell Optiplex GX520. There is a flickering amber light on the power button. There is no power up, no post. I have replaced the power supply and the motherboard; still no luck. What next?

dalexa10 Aug 21, 2008

Thanks, Jelacio. In my note I stated that I had already replaced the motherboard and the power suppy---new ones from Dell. I also put in new memory sticks. Upon a different fixya user's suggestions, I removed all of the internals, e.g. hard drive, cd, floppy, etc and replaced them one by one to determine which piece of hardware it was---no luck.
dalexa10 Aug 27, 2008

Jelacio,

Nothing is on inside the case...not the fans, no sound, whatsoever... I reset the bios... still nothing... I have order the front io panel, but have not received it. I will try the cable while we wait for the io panel. I also checked that the motherboard was not making contact with the pc case.

Thanks.

dalexa10

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FIRST IF YOU REPLACED THE POWER SUPPLY OF YOUR DELL PC,
MAKE SURE IS A RECOMMEND POWER SUPPLY FOR DELL COMPUTERS ONLY
BECAUSE DELL USE A DIFFERENT (NONSTARD) PS

AN PLEASE DON'T TURN YOUR PC ON, TILE YOU ARE SURE I'TS A DELL COMPATIBLE POWER SUPPLY
YOU CAN FRY YOUR COMPUTER

ON THE MOTHERBOARD I'T MAY BE THE BIOS (BIOS STANDS FOR INPUT /OUTPUT SYSTEM) I'T A CHIP ON YOUR MOTHERBOARD THAT CONTROLS THE SYSTEM HARDWARE AND ACTS AS AN INTERFACE BETWEEN THE OPERATING SYSTEM AND THE HARDWARE
I'T MAY BE FLASH
IF IS FLASH ,
YOU PROBABLY NEED TO REPLACE THE MOTHERBOARD
OR CALL DELL TO SEE IF THEY CAN FIX IT

Anonymous Aug 21, 2008

I KNOW IT'S FRUSTRATING BUT I HAVE TO ASK YOU
WEN YOU TURN THE PC ON
AND YOU SAY THE LIGHT IT'S ON ON THE POWER BUTTON
BUT WAT ABOUT THE FANS IN SIDE LIKE THE ONE FROM THE CPU IT'S IT ON ?
WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER FANS ARE THEY ON ?
MAKE SURE THE MOTHERBOARD IS NOT MAKING GROUND WITH THE ANY PART OF THE CASE
ALSO YOU CAN TRY TESTING THE POWER SUPPLY WITH A PSU TESTER TO SEE IF YOU GETTING THE CURRENT ON EACH CABLE
TO ME IT'S EITHER
1: THE MOTHERBOARD DOING SOME CAIN OF GROUND CONTACT WITH THE PC CASE
OR
2: YOU ARE NOT GETTING ENOUGH VOLTS ON THE 20 OR 24 PING CABLE
LET ME KNOW IF YOU FIND THE PROBLEM

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