Re: [TCLUG:5080] RE: Computer turn on

[Peter Lukas <peter@math.umn.edu>]

You may want to double-check and make certain there's not a screw or some
other piece of metal making contact with the motherboard.  Take the board
out of the case, set it on a piece of cardboard (pizza box or somehting)
and make all your connections.  If it works then, you've got something in
the case that's shorting out the motherboard.  ATX power supplies are very
sensitive when it comes to stuff like this (for good reason).

Peter Lukas

On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Ben Luey wrote:

> I've got a very nice surge protector designed for computers connected to
> my computer, but maybe it wasn't enough. Don't UPS's start at over a
> hundred dollars?
> 
> New info: when you press the power button the power supply give a faint
> buzz and then nothing, sounds like a capasitor discharging. I think it is
> the power supply, which is only $30 to replace.
> 
> Ben
> 
> On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Scot Jenkins wrote:
> 
> > Whether or not the power went off, you could have gotten a surge.  I'd
> > _highly_ recommend purchasing a UPS.  They're pretty cheap and save you
> > tons down the road.  I have an APC and you wouldn't believe all the
> > times I've been sitting at the PC and here the alarm go off when the
> > power lines take some kind of hit.  Most times it's not even enough to
> > knock the lights off, but it's a brown-out or a sag/surge.  Enough to
> > destroy computer equipment.  My UPS has more then paid for itself in the
> > 4 yrs I've had it.
> > -- 
> > Scot W. Jenkins <mailto:swjenkins@ibm.net>
> > Unix Systems Administrator
> > 
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