hardware question, power button not working on system.

[Lorenzo Taylor]

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If you are uncomfortable with a paperclip, a jumper should do the same
job.  A jumper is the small square plastic thing like what you have on
the back of your hard drive or CD-ROM drive.  If you happen to have a
spare, you can use that.  If not, just remember where you got it from on
the back of your drive and put it back in the same place when you know
if your computer is able to power on.

As for frying something, all the pins in that area take low power and
control lights and switches.  If your computer isn't powered up when you
connect a paperclip or a jumper to the pins you won't fry anything.  But
if you hit the right pins, be prepared to startle yourself a little by
the thing just coming on. <smile>

HTH,
Lorenzo
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