Hello.
I've had this Dell Demension 8400 a long time and it is the best dell product I've ever owned. Here is the story:
This computer was shut down wrongly it's first years in the home by kids ages 0-5. Two years after my father got it, it picked up a virus and he had to re-install xp. The computer ran fine up to a crictical disk corruption, which was fixed by me and my dad. Things where smooth sailing for a long time after that.
Then, one the Halloween of 2011, One of the computers ram chips blew and I detected that using a system test and I replaced the faulty chip with a new one. This also was combined with a crictical disk curruption, and I had to re-install the OS. That was the day that a new problem began: One week after the computer was fixed, I had noticed it was starting to shut off at random times with a blinking amber light left at the power button, I fixed this by pressing the button until the blinking amber light disappered, and unplugged the power supply, which reset something (internal battery I'm guessing) and left it unplugged all night for best results. Eventually, the problem disappered for long periods of time and would come back and that would be fixed by reparing windows through the recovery console.
About 2 months ago, My father was using the computer, and the fan went wild: Spinning rapidly making the extremely loud noise and I had to unplug the computer to get it to shut off. The next day we turned it on and: Steady amber light, computers beeps and it fails POST, and the dell logo does not come up, No image on the screen, fan not heard and then silence, along with a steady amber light.
Do I need a new motherboard, or do I just need to replace the caps on it?
Thank you for your time.
I've had this Dell Demension 8400 a long time and it is the best dell product I've ever owned. Here is the story:
This computer was shut down wrongly it's first years in the home by kids ages 0-5. Two years after my father got it, it picked up a virus and he had to re-install xp. The computer ran fine up to a crictical disk corruption, which was fixed by me and my dad. Things where smooth sailing for a long time after that.
Then, one the Halloween of 2011, One of the computers ram chips blew and I detected that using a system test and I replaced the faulty chip with a new one. This also was combined with a crictical disk curruption, and I had to re-install the OS. That was the day that a new problem began: One week after the computer was fixed, I had noticed it was starting to shut off at random times with a blinking amber light left at the power button, I fixed this by pressing the button until the blinking amber light disappered, and unplugged the power supply, which reset something (internal battery I'm guessing) and left it unplugged all night for best results. Eventually, the problem disappered for long periods of time and would come back and that would be fixed by reparing windows through the recovery console.
About 2 months ago, My father was using the computer, and the fan went wild: Spinning rapidly making the extremely loud noise and I had to unplug the computer to get it to shut off. The next day we turned it on and: Steady amber light, computers beeps and it fails POST, and the dell logo does not come up, No image on the screen, fan not heard and then silence, along with a steady amber light.
Do I need a new motherboard, or do I just need to replace the caps on it?
Thank you for your time.
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