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Older Gateway Power Supply Shot?
In my attic I have an older Win 95 based Gateway that won’t boot. I want to resuscitate it so I can use it to each myself Linux as I’m such a clutz I’m sure to screw up the PC I’m using now if I tried something like that.
So what I need to know is why it won’t boot. What it does when I hit the power button is go through the motions of booting up to a certain point, then nothing. The operating system won’t load, and I notice that the hard drive pitch doesn’t seem quite high enough.
My guess is that the power supply is malfunctioning to some degree and is no longer sufficient to juice the hard drive 100%, but I’m a bit of a novice so appreciate if someone would set me straight if I’m heading in the wrong direction.
Power supplies do go bad. When they do, things usually do not start at all so I suspect the problem is not the power supply. I have not seen a power supply as the problem and have it exhibit what you are describing.
I suspect you have a bad hard drive – preventing booting. The hard drive pitch issue further suggests this is the problem.
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