If you get absolutely nothing, I think you mobo is probably toast.  Even
with no CPU, the fans should start.

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Miller, John" <JMiller2 at dainrauscher.com>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:22 AM
Subject: [TCLUG] Dead computer


> I got up this morning and turned on my computer and nothing happened,
> not even the fan on the p/s turned on.  I swapped out the power supply
> with another that I had and still nothing.  I took the original p/s and
> plugged it in and turned it on (I had it connected to an old pc switch),
> nothing.  I remember reading a thread on a similar subject about p/s's
> and whether they could run with out a mb.  My question is this.  I have
> a mb laying around, it has a cpu and memory on it.  If I plugged a p/s
> into it and turned it on, would that be enough to get the p/s working
> (provided it does work)?  Could this be a result of age (the computer
> and mb are old (Cyrix 200 and AOpen 5A))
>
> Thanks
>
> John Miller
> Dain Rauscher
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