Miller, John wrote:

> 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))


I believe one thread also brought up the possibility that the 
motherboard battery could be dead.

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Perry Hoekstra
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Talent Software Services
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