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qasdfdsaq · 15-09-2011, 08:13

Heh, much to my chagrin, it's been impossible to find a reset switch on almost any major OEM built PC for the last half a decade. Now the same major OEMs are even removing the HDD status lights and anything else they can get away with short of the power button itself...

The number of times in the past month I've had to hold down the power button for 5 seconds, wait 10 seconds, and then press it again when a reset button would have done the damn job twenty times faster...

Anyhow, either contacting the wires together or shorting the green connector on the ATX to ground would do it. Just don't try either if it's an AT PSU (highly unlikely)

15-09-2011, 08:13	#8
qasdfdsaq cf.mega poster Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 11,207	Re: Pc doesn't switch on. (suspected power switch issue) Heh, much to my chagrin, it's been impossible to find a reset switch on almost any major OEM built PC for the last half a decade. Now the same major OEMs are even removing the HDD status lights and anything else they can get away with short of the power button itself... The number of times in the past month I've had to hold down the power button for 5 seconds, wait 10 seconds, and then press it again when a reset button would have done the damn job twenty times faster... Anyhow, either contacting the wires together or shorting the green connector on the ATX to ground would do it. Just don't try either if it's an AT PSU (highly unlikely)