[Techtalk] strange hardware question

Rudy Zijlstra rudy at grumpydevil.homelinux.org
Fri Jun 22 13:58:02 UTC 2007


Maria McKinley wrote:
> Tracey C wrote:
>   
>> On 6/21/07, Maria McKinley <maria at shadlen.org> wrote:
>>
>>     
>>> Has anyone had an experience where a computer case seems to "go bad"?
>>>       
>>
>> Strange! I have had motherboards and power supplies die. Assuming you
>> changed out the power supply, I'm not sure what the case would add to the
>> mix.
>> Do you get a power light at all on the box? Does the power supply fan spin
>> up? Do you get any POST beeps?
>>
>>
>>     
>
> I get absolutely nothing but fans turning on. I'm guessing some sort of
> short in the power connectors. That is the only thing left in the box I
> haven't changed out, and I don't know that I can change those out.
>
> ~m
>   

Been thinking on this one... Could you send a picture of the power 
supply section? Perhaps one of the outside and one inside?

Might help the thinking.

Rudy


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