I have a Dell Dimension 4600 that has none of it's original parts, with the exception of the mobo & CPU. I tried to turn it on the other day and nothing happened. The only noticable sign of life is ...
Since this "black screen with blinking taskbar" symptom it's a minimum of two minutes, which is worse than the bad old "booting from spinning rust" days. And no, not getting random black screens, ...