“The People are no longer afraid” was the cover of one of the newspapers published on the 12th of May of 1974. On April 25, 1974 a coup carried out by the Armed Forces Movement (MFA), in disagreement with the colonial war that had been going on for thirteen years in Mozambique, Angola and Guinea, put an end to the Portuguese dictatorship, which lasted 48 years under the direction of Antonio Salazar and under the leadership of Marcelo Caetano (after 1968).
Thousands of people immediately left their homes, against the appeal of the military who led the coup – which insisted on the radio for people to stay at home -, especially in Lisbon and Porto, and it was with the people at their front door, shouting "death to fascism”, that the Government was surrounded in the Quartel do Carmo (Barracks of Carmo) in Lisbon; the doors of the prisons of Peniche and Caxias were opened for release all political prisoners; PIDE / DGS, the political police, was dismantled; the headquarters of newspaper of the regime, The Age, was attacked and the censorship was abolished.
The Portuguese empire would fall later in 1974, after mobilizing nearly two million forced workers (in the mines in South Africa, cotton plantations in Angola, among others) and a 13 year war – 1961-1974 – to prevent the independence of the African countries of Angola, Cabo Verde, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau. Having been built to increase the profit of monopolies, as well as to discipline the workforce, the Portuguese dictatorship fell in the hands of the workers in April of 1974. A significant part of the property owners had to flee the country after the nationalizations which were meant to put an end to the workers’ control, which had become generalized starting February of 1975, especially in the banking sector, large metallomechanical factories, etc.
The ankylose structure of the empire – as well as that of its Bonapartist regime – led to the most important social rupture in post-war Europe – so great was the rupture and the length of it that no historian to this day has managed to determine how many workers’ meetings happened during the week after the coup by the MFA because there were hundreds, maybe thousands, and countrywide.
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So my computer isn't starting up anymore. I press the power button and it clicks and the fans whir for a second but then it all stops. Pressing the button at that point doesn't do anything and in order to repeat this process I need to cut power and then plug it back in.
Power is still being supplied to the USB ports - my RGB cat ear headphones are still doing their thing.
Any idea what might be broken or how I can narrow down the problem?
Nothing on the screen at all yeah? Not even mobo splash screen?
If you have another power supply you could try that. Or unplugging all but one stick of RAM and see if it boots.
It's technically possible there's a short somehow but that's unlikely to just start happening randomly, unless you moved your PC recently or something.
Another weird possibility: certain motherboards won't boot if they don't detect a keyboard, try a different port or different keyboard.
Nothing on the screen, not really enough time for that. The fans will spin for about a single rotation before everything stops, and the light up rings on them don't light up.
Computer has been on the same desk for almost a year, nothing moved.
I'll try the RAM and keyboard things and see if that does anything.
Thanks.
My gut is saying power supply issue probably. You could also try buying a motherboard speaker (they're pretty cheap, like 5 or 10 bucks or so) and plugging it in, the error code it beeps might give you more to go on.
A friend is also suggesting power supply, especially since the computer isn't even powering on enough to find other errors. It's like a lawnmower failing to turn over.
if you have vmeter thingy, you can unplug the big 24 pin connector to mobo, and measure pins voltage to ground (internet has pinouts, to see what should be) (and then 4 pin of cpu power). If you don't have multimeter probably faster to get new psu
Sounds like your in good hands then. Power supply failures are always scary cause it can fry your other parts but that doesn't seem like the case here luckily. If your friends psu works I'd plug your components into pcpartpicker and then grab a platinum rated PSU with a bit more wattage than your parts need.
Do the USB ports still power your headphones even after everything else dies?
I also suspect that it's a power issue but essentially something is asking for more than your power supply can handle. A few seconds into power being on is when your BIOS starts doing things, initializing/enabling devices that draw power. For example, if you have a hard drive attached, spinning it up for the first time draws a decent amount of power.
You can take a stab at this by unplugging / disconnecting hardware (selectively!) from the motherboard and trying to boot. If you have a hard drive, like with a disk, I'd start there. Also a graphics card. Or if you have another PSU, try using it instead.
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Oh yeah there's no "few seconds", it's like immediately off and the fan lights don't even have time to turn on. I recorded a short, like 4 second video but idk how to share it.
A friend is bringing their spare PSU over tonight so we can try this.
Oh wow that's fast.
I would suspect PSU or motherboard. Glad you can test whether it's the PSU!
It was totally the PSU. Got a new one and everything is peachy. Thanks.