Background:
Have a fairly new (about 14 months) HP desktop PC. We moved two months ago to about an hour away.
Well, we moved all our stuff, PC included, but we stayed back in town for two more months.
Situation:
We have just gotten here, two months later, and I tried to hook up my PC again.
Nothing. There is a light in the back (green) that blinks. It blinks fast until I unplug the PC, then it blinks slower and slower until nothing.
When plugged in, the front blue power button blinks at a steady pace, and when unplugged, nothing.
I can hear a faint ticking sound from the green light in the back when I take the case off.
I am not too computer literate as fair as hardware goes, but I am comfortable being able to do things if I can see what I am doing. So any instructions that are written out step by step I feel I can follow. I just need to read what I am doing.
I took of the case and noticed the plug itself goes into a metal box. I see the metal box has a large group of wires and that snaps into the motherboard. I think. Well I unsnapped the wires from the motherboard and plugged the PC back in. The green light turned on and stayed a steady green. I unplugged the PC and plugged the wires back into the motherboard. I plugged the PC back in and it went back to its blinking.
This would eliminate the metal box which I assuming is the power supply box. (At least I think this eliminates it.)
The PC has been sitting on a shelf (not on a carpet) in a hallway for two months. I am wondering if it sitting there for two months unplugged could have damaged it in someway. I have no idea how. But other than a short somewhere, I am at a loss to what is going on.
I have tried to hold in the power button, but nothing happens.
Any suggestions before I take this thing in and get completely ripped off?
Again, no fans come on, no drive lights come on, no drives accessed, no beeps, absolutely nothing but the blinking lights.
Help? :/
Thanks for any advice you can give me.
