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Solid amber power light
I have an Optiplex 280 that was in a house struck by lightening. The phone wires needed to be replaced, as did their DSL router.
This Optiplex was connecte dto the router that got fried. It doesn't boot up, just a solid amber power light when you plug it in. They had me order a new Dell to replace it and gave me this one to do with as I please.
I've tried all the suggestions in the manuals and whatever I could find here. The machine still has about 250 days of warranty on it (gold support too) but since it is lightening damage I doubt it would be covered?
Anyway, if I can bring this machine back to life for little cost I'd like to, but don't want to keep replacing parts until I figure out what it is.
Most likely to me are the motherboard then the power supply. I'm thinking the onboard NIC got zapped being connected to the DSL router that got zapped. Any suggestions?
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August 8th, 2007 14:00
If you want to try and get data off of the harddrive, the safest (still with a risk though) option would be to buy a USB enclosure and put the drive in there and then connect it to your 'new' computer to see if the drive is readable. If so, you have your data, and and external harddrive (for backups or so (to help reduce the risk of losing data)).
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August 8th, 2007 15:00
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August 10th, 2007 17:00