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Apparent hardware failure on HP s5-1114 desktop
Roommate's dad's HP Slimline HP s5-1114 desktop, originally tested by onboard diagnostics showing HD SMART imminent fail Error code 303.
PC will not now power up at all. Only sign of life is LED on Power Supply. Unplugged to release residual power and now will not even show LED on power supply.
Does this def point to power supply? Any way to test it without another? I'll take it to Geek Squad in the morning to plug into their universal to see. Would like to avoid that if possible.
Could a SMART imminent failure error by HP Diagnostics be a false positive somehow affected by failing supply? HD is detected in BIOS so not sure why it wouldn't boot unless boot sector was failing first.
Thanks.