The green light on the PS is on when plugged in and the orange light on the motherboard is lit but there is no response of any sort when I press the power button on the front. The led on the power button does not light and there is no beeping. What I have tried is shorting the PSU with a paper clip from the green wire to the adjacent black wire in the 24 pin plug and the PSU fan turns on and the CPU fan starts at max speed. With the CPU fan still at high speed, I remove the CPU four pin power connector (12v black and brown wires), from the motherboard and when I am testing the voltage diagonally with my VOM meter, it indicates 0.6v, the system starts and boots into windows, AFTER I plug the 4 pin CPU back into the motherboard and remove the PSU jumper. Memory is good, and no periferals are plugged onto the MB. BIOS battery was replaced and erased using the jumpers. I replaced the obvious bad caps on the PS to get to this place as described above. Any ideas?
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Last edited by captainKKK; 01-06-2023, 07:36 PM. -
Re: Inspiron 530S - boot issue
Mark this one as a tribute to Badcaps forums as fixed. After tear down the PS the second time , I found a 2200uf 10v cap hiding deep inside, that was just barely pouching at the top and after replacing this 10 cent cap, it has worked perfectly for 10 reboots and 8 hours of operation. Never think that ONE bad cap will not fix your issues.
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