My dell desktop, inspiron 530s has problems turning on. If i shut off the comp, it wont turn on, the light will turn amber instead of green on the tower and nothing will happen. but if i shut off my power strip to my computer, and then turn both back on, it works fine. What can I do to fix this?

Is the computer plugged in to a known good power source with a known good power cord? Also, make sure the power is fully seated on both ends. When you press the power button are you getting any indicator lights? The power button itself has an LED that will be either solid green, blinking green, solid amber, blinking amber, or off. Do you hear any beeps?

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try this:

1- shut it down then open the computer box
2- find a green or blue jumper beside the memory slot or Data cable slots
3- remove jumper , then turn computer on
wait for 10 sec then shut it down
4- put the jumper back and close the computer box
5- turn the pc on and have fun

This is a system fault error condition, including the power supply. Only the +5VSB rail on the power supply is working correctly.

ports to see if anyare damaged and then try powering on the system to see if you get a green power button.

is the computer working can u hear the fan ? if it is working then u might need to change the back cable that is connected to the computer and the monitor

there is power buttom on the keyboard makes it wake up. try it

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One of two things:

Either the power supply is marginal

or

the motherboard is bad.

Good luck.

my inspiron 530 giving me trouble. Blue light is on, but the computer goes no where. Try to start by shutting down and restarting but the start sound keeps coming fora long time and nothing happens. So to say having trouble starting and sometimes it shuts down but the blue light stays on. Sometimes I cann't even turn off the computer by pressing blue light - trouble trouble trouble

The one method that will always work to shut down a frozen computer is to hold down the power button on the front of the computer until it turns off. When you turn it back on, it will give you an option of different startup modes, and unless it really is a serious problem, you can just go with "start Windows normally".