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Dell XPS 420 won't start - blinking amber light flashing on.
Potential causes I found out there, bad power supply, bad bios battery, and a few other things.
Did the easy first, replaced the bios battery (didn't work).
Was just going to order a replacement power supply, but then saw this:
Is that a bad capacitor?
It looks like it's slightly bulging, and I don't see brown "liquid" on any other ones...
Could that be the cause?
Potential causes I found out there, bad power supply, bad bios battery, and a few other things.
Did the easy first, replaced the bios battery (didn't work).
Was just going to order a replacement power supply, but then saw this:
![bad_capacitor.jpg bad_capacitor.jpg](https://www.pricescope.com/community/data/attachments/533/533318-cf4dce3555046a98fa61b59f91ed20fd.jpg)
Is that a bad capacitor?
It looks like it's slightly bulging, and I don't see brown "liquid" on any other ones...
Could that be the cause?