On 19 Mar 2008, at 13:41, Grant wrote:
A Gentoo desktop of mine won't turn on anymore. I was hoping it was
the power supply but I've installed a new one which doesn't fix the
problem. Is there a sure way to know if the motherboard needs
replacement or if I have two dead power supplies?
Hi there,
I work on PCs for a living, mostly peoples' home computers, and in
the case of a "dead pc" the cause is nearly as often something else
as it is a dead PSU.
Causes such as a duff CD-ROM drive or a damaged USB connector are
surprising but not uncommon, so reset the BIOS (using the method
described by Volker) and if that doesn't work unplug as much as
possible from the motherboard - you'll surely need the CPU & RAM for
it to post, but you may wish to swap out the RAM at some point in
your diagnostics - and unplug most everything else. That means
drives, PCI cards, USB devices, stuff connected to the USB & serial
headers, graphics card if possible. Also don't connect the power
supply to any of the drives, or anything else that you're not
currently using.
I've seen cheap power supplies take out the motherboard when they go.
Sorry if you find that to be the case.
Stroller.
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