YOU MUST USE DELL POWER SUPPLY!
Not anymore. that was a short-lived foray by dell into the world of proprietary components. they since went back to the ATX standard. What your doing here is something called "confirmation bias" whereby all positive feedback that doesn't jive with your philosophy is discarded, while you frame all negative feedback (in this case about dell) in gold. You could do the exact same thing to any company; and in fact this is where conspiracy theories come from; discard any evidence that doesn't support your claim.
Additionally; kizza1645 is not the original poster, he may or may not have a dell computer, and wether he does or not is irrelevant for reasons I've already stated.
but scense your computer is a dell mabye dell offers some warrenty? or mabye dells can only use specific power supplys? sorry for trying to help mabye if you got a good computer i wouldnt need to talk about dells
Maybe, maybe... a little research and you'd know that Dell of course offers a warranty, and they now use standard ATX power supplies. (at least since 2001, since mine is ATX).
Dell is a computer assembler. they buy motherboards, graphics cards, etc in bulk and assemble PCs from them. They go about it no different then any other manufacturer, and they use the same parts, so claiming a dell is any worse then a HP or compaq is merely an expression of your prejudice without cause on the company as a whole. (and don't make wild claims about defects with Dell computers. Toshiba, Acer, etc; they have their fair share of problems too.
And- back on topic;
while it could be the power supply, it's possible a power management feature has been enabled or something of the sort that causes it to hibernate or sleep, and in my experience power management in any computer is prone to failure with incompatible peripherals, (personal experience), causing the machine to be "stuck" in the sleep state.
Next time it occurs, try holding the power button for around 5 to 10 seconds; the machine should shut off completely, at which point you can boot up.
if that works (and I'm psychic or something
) then investigate the power management options available in control panel; possibly even disable them completely.
