[Techtalk] no boot after replacing cpu cooler

Carla Schroder carla at bratgrrl.com
Fri Jan 15 04:55:53 UTC 2010


On Thursday 14 January 2010 07:40:46 pm agoats at compuserve.com wrote:
> Check the current draw of the stock and Arctic Cooling Freezer. If the
> Arctic is pulling more power to run than the stock cooler, you can have
> everything happen as mentioned. Going back lowers the power draw and
> everything works as normal.
>
> You might see if you can run the Arctic from a different power source
> like the disk drive cables. This may mean you have to go into the BIOS
> and disable some functions to ignore monitoring fan speed...
>
> Alvin

It doesn't POST at all now. I'm leaning towards PSU, it's an old one. Reckon 
I'll do a swap and see what happens. Spose I could dig out the multimeter, 
but that sounds like work. All tired now. Come do it for me, plz. ;)

Carla

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