PC does not start or wake up

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Roger Van Loon

I have a Dell PC with Win XP Professional and there were no problems for
several years.
However, recently, it refused to wake up from standby. And now, a more
serious problem: after shutdown, it frequently refuses to start up (PC
starts to run, but black screen, no error messages). It took some 5
tries to get it started this time and I wonder if I will be back online
after next shutdown.
Would this be a Win XP problem, or a hardware problem?
Roger Van Loon.
 
Not an XP problem as the system is not properly completing POST, it's a
hardware problem, possible power supply.

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Contrary to what you might thing, if you turn on the PC and get no video,
more often then not it is not the video card that is the problem.

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