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Power Button Fading In/Out - Partial Power

Started by retrac1324 , Jul 27 2010 04:35 AM

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Posted 27 July 2010 - 04:35 AM

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I was recently using my Gateway desktop and the power in the whole house went out for about 10 seconds. I left the PC off for about 10 mins but when I turned it on, the light on the power button fades in and out constantly like it's hibernating or something. But it still boots up and loads Windows 7 fine. Except all USB peripherals and PCI wireless card have no power. Same thing happens in safe mode. But they do work outside of the OS (like I can use the keyboard to enter the bios but once Windows loads, the keyboard turns off).
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tholley
Posted 27 July 2010 - 02:47 PM

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I believe you are getting help on another forum?
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 02:59 PM

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I believe you are getting help on another forum?


The suggestions that other people gave me haven't helped resolve the problem yet.
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 03:19 PM

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Hopefully the power surge didn't fry something on your mb...

Wish I could offer more suggestion... :)
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Posted 27 July 2010 - 03:38 PM

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Hopefully the power surge didn't fry something on your mb...

Wish I could offer more suggestion... :)


I don't think it's a hardware problem. All devices work fine in other operating systems including a separate Windows 7 partition.
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