I have to side with Andrew on this. Not only do you need a couple of
different voltages, which are generated by the power supply, but you
also need them in a specific turn on sequence, so the fans could be
running on the power supply but you could be missing 1 or more voltages.
If you know how to use a voltmeter and have the manual for the mother
board you can check the voltages at the power plug to make sure it's the
power supply. Though I would say there's and 90% it's the power supply,
it could be something is shorted on the motherboard.
Mike M.
On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 00:10, Andrew Wyatt wrote:
> no no no, it's probably the power supply. In the 10 years that I have
> been a service engineer, I've seen 1 bad CPU. Pull all of the cards,
> leave only the CPU on the board. Disconnect all drives, including power.
> Turn the power on, if it beeps add the video card. If it still comes up
> add each device one by one until it fails. If the board doesn't beep
> change the power supply FIRST. Also be sure that you have a speaker
> connected to the system board.
>
> -Andrew
>
> On Thu, 2003-01-09 at 23:45, bpreece1@tampabay.rr.com wrote:
> > If you have the keyboard plugged in and all cards removed and drives
> > dissconnected then usually you are dealing with a dead processor.
> >
> > Especially if the power is on and no beeps are happening also try removing
> > the ram just to see if you get a ram error if nothing at that point
> > processor would be 95% possible.
> >
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doug Koobs <dkoobs@dkoobs.com>
> > To: slug@nks.net <slug@nks.net>
> > Date: Thursday, January 09, 2003 7:02 PM
> > Subject: [SLUG] Dead PC
> >
> >
> > >When I power it up, all the fans start spinning, but I never get any BIOS
> > >beep code, and never get any video. Could it be bad Motherboard, CPU, or
> > >Memory? Hehe, I gues that doesn't really leave much else :) I really don't
> > >have any spare parts to swap out to test... I've tried using the jumper to
> > >reset the BIOS while power was unplugged and battery out. I've removed all
> > >IDE and PCI devices, still no good... Any ideas? THanks,
> > >
> > >Doug
> > >
> > >
> --
> Andrew Wyatt <awyatt@fewt.com>
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