Jay Johengen
Altamahaw-Ossipee, North Carolina, United States
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Computing in general
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Unplug the PC and then hold the power button down?
I was helping someone with a PC problem. It would not boot up, or did so sporadically. It was making the beep-beep sound, that has almost always meant a hard drive crash to me. I had to leave, but asked them to call Dell customer support and the solution was to unplug all the cords from the PC, wait about 2 minutes, then hold the PC power button in for about 30 seconds. This fixed the problem. Is this a capacitor-type problem? I've never heard of a solution like this before.
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