well, if it wasn’t booting and everything we seated right the motherboard was almost certainly shot, you may have shorted it when building it the first time or it was bad out of the box. What you described was not very helpful information from the motherboard which typically leans towards faulty. > On Aug 2, 2015, at 4:09 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com> wrote: > > Ryan Coleman writes: > >> On Jul 28, 2015, at 6:15 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com <mailto:woodbrian77 at gmail.com>> wrote: > >> > >> I took the parts here > >> > >> http://maxcomputer1.com/ <http://maxcomputer1.com/> <http://maxcomputer1.com/ <http://maxcomputer1.com/>> > >> > >> He had a bench and work area and I was able to have input in the > >> process and watch what he was doing. His verdict was that the power > >> converter (supply) and motherboard are bad and that the cpu and ram > >> are good. He also charged less than Microcenter wanted. > >> > >> I was surprised the power converter was bad, but he checked it > >> several times. > > > > I?m not. I commented on that item specifically. $10-15 would have confirmed that, > > but it would have required a functioning motherboard to be certain. Although you > > could have tested the PSU with a $5 multimeter and a paperclip (to short the > > ?power on? pair) without much trouble. > > I've remained surprised and enough so that today I tested the > power converter in one of my other computers. That computer > worked fine for the 15 minutes or so I left it on. Now I'm not sure > what to think about the rest of what he told me. I think I believe > him about the motherboard being bad and I want to believe him > about the cpu and ram being good, but ... > > -- > Brian > Ebenezer Enterprises - In G-d we trust. > http://webEbenezer.net <http://webebenezer.net/> > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150802/e4a57ad5/attachment.html>