I have just tried to turn my COMPUTER on and although there is power to it - it sounds like it is GOING to start up and the light flashes at the front but then it just turns straight off.
Any ideas
pls post more detail about problem, did you hear any "beep"?, which light flashing? is it power light or hard disk light. did the cpu fan spinning?, how about power supply fan, did it working too? and pls post your PC spec, it may help to solve your problemplease, not pls. It only costs 3 more letters.  Thank you PCfool and GX1-Man

I popped into PC world this morning as I was passing and they seem to think motherboard has died.
GX1-man - I didn't post too much information because that is basically all I can tell you.  I went to switch on, for a split second it looked like it was OK and then it all went dead.  Smell of burning this morning.  I know it's my problem and not yours - didn't say it was anyone elses problem. just first time of asking for advice.  Possibly will be my last if that is the attitude.
SorryA simple request for more information on the machine, OS and what happened prior to the problem is NOT an attitude...it is an effective way of troubleshooting a problem.

All we know right now from what info was posted is :

A.) It's a computer

B.) It has issues.

The attitude isn't on this end that i can see...

patio.  8-)You obviously didn't read this comment then did you

Quote: Too much info is OK, too little is pointless! Don't just say "My computer doesn't work. What's wrong?" We shouldn't have to drag the details out of you. It is YOUR problem, not ours. QUOTE

Nothing did happen prior to problem.  Computer is in my showroom - I simply switched it on and apart from a brief show of LIFE [a second literally] when the light at the front of the CPU blinked on that was it . Dead.

So I can't really give any further information as I don't have any
 
I don't have an attitude - I just posted for help and thought if someone had come across this before they may just be able to throw some light on it.Actually my response was to pcfool and his text messaging.

By the way it is not an attitude. That is my signature and appears in all of my posts, as it seems we are always having to ask for the details that would speed us along to a solution of the problem, as in this case. (Please see both posts here to confirm that.)

As Patio has stated you really gave us no information to work with. Without that all we can say is that it APPARENTLY is not working. PCWorld or having a tech working with it in person may be your best bet if you cannot provide more info. Sorry.





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All we know right now from what info was posted is :
 
A.) It's a computer
 
B.) It has issues.