Where now?
Daughter brought her dead PC home over Xmas for dad (me) to fix. She said that "it just stopped working" and sure enough, when plugged in, absolutly nothing. First check the fuse - no fault there. Thinking that the power supply had died I grabbed one that came out of my own machine last month when I upgraded and swapped it for her 'dead' one. Power on and still nothing.
Hmm, let's try another power supply. Still nothing. OK, maybe the mb has died? Grab the one that came out of my system last month, swap it for her old one and still nothing!
So, having taken known working components from my old system (power supply, mb, RAM, graphics card) the PC still fails to do anything. No lights, noise, fan - all dead as a dodo.
This only leaves the power button in the case and, as I don't have a spare one, I'm now stuck. I did have a look at the power/reset connectors/cables/buttons and all looks visually OK but without a meter in the house I'm unable to fully check. Before I invest 25 beer tokens on a new case can anyone think of something obvious that I've missed.