On Fri, Jul 1, 2011 at 23:10, Yaron <tclug at freakzilla.com> wrote: > > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011, Mike Miller wrote: > >> I turned off my Ubuntu box earlier today and when I turned it back on >> nothing appeared on the screen(s). > > > This is prooooooobably not an Utuntu problem (; > > Ok, if it's turning on at all, it's probably not the motherboard since > nowadays the motherboard is what's saying "Yeah go ahead and turn on". > > No video at all, no POST, no weird beeps? Nothing at all? Ok, maybe it IS > the motherboard (; Or CPU or RAM... honestly with no output at ALL the only > thing you can do is start swapping out components and hoping to hit the > right one... if you do this professionally then it pays to get one of these, it tells you where in the post process the system is hanging. beats counting beeps. http://siliconkit.com/ocart/index.php?route=product/category&path=25_41 and one of these will help determine if the power supply is at fault(will not work with proprietary power supplies, including some dells which look like standard atx): http://www.buy.com/prod/coolmax-ps-228-atx12v-eps12v-power-supply-tester-atx-motherboard/q/sellerid/11408470/loc/101/212543552.html IMHO, if you fix computers for a living you need both of these tools.