Hello Dell Community,

got a bit of an issue on my hands here.  I was just on my Dell Dimension E521..well..it was actually sitting idle with a download going in the background while I was on my laptop... and it randomly shut off. When I inspected it, the light was flashing amber. I held the button to shut it down, then opened it up. My PSU has LED lights that light up when its on, so I hit the button and the LED flashed and then went dead again, with the button still flashing amber. 

I changed the power supply in it a long while back (along with updating to an Nvidia GeForce 8600 graphics card and increasing the RAM by 1 gig) so I figured something was wrong with those parts. I switched them all out to the old parts, and still the same, so I threw them back in. When I hit the power button after that, my power supply sparked, but the LED and fans and everything stayed on like it was working. Now the light is just a solid amber. No flashing. My warranty is gone so sending it in for repairs is out of the picture. Can anyone help me fix this?

Thank you,

-Travis

EDIT: I dont know if it matters, but throughout all the testing, I kept my monitor hooked up and nothing ever kicked it out of standby, so it wasnt getting a signal.