Cleaning -- Well, I cleaned it out as best I could. I tried a vacuum and a wisk broom. It's hard to a lot of the areas because of all of the things sticking up in the air and covering other things up. I have to say, however, that it really didn't look all that dirty.
Power supply -- How does one test the power supply?
Overall, as I said above, I'm suspecting a bad video card as the culprit.
Thanks, Greg Wallace
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What DELL model is it?
This might be a start for finding manuals etc: http://support.euro.dell.com/support/index.aspx
I´ve been following this thread. For a couple of weeks ago I installed SuSe 10.0 on a friends computer. Everything was up running just fine. My friend doesn´t know much about computers so before I should leave his place I said that he should switch of the computer and start it by him self, so I could see that he could manage it. It DIDN´T start. It didn´t try to boot from hd, cd or dvd. It didn´t enter bios. Totally dead. After 30-40 tries it suddenly started again (with no problems). The difference here is that there´s never any messed up screen on this computer. Either it doesn´t boot or it boots and run perfectly. In my opinion it´s the power supply that´s the week part in this DELL computer. When I opened the case of the computer I saw the BIGGEST Cpu fan I have ever seen. It occupies half the case and there´s to big holes in the sides of the case letting out hot air from the cpu. I said to my my friend that he has to have the computer up running until I know what to do. As I remember it´s a DELL (for shure) ~Dimension 5000. Ati graphics X300. Intel P4 3Ghz With a fan s big as Sweden... The construction as I see it should never have left the factory. /Peo Registered Linux user #432116 http://counter.li.org/ http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/