Re: Urgent PC Help Needed

["David Gumbrell" <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Shorting the green wire to a black wire in the ATX power connector
starts
the PSU (bent paper clips are good). But sometimes PSUs need a load to
start
properly -- a few decent fans or a potentially sacrificial hard disk will
do.

Funnily enough, I've just had exactly this symptom with an Antec True Power
that proved to have one rail dead. Motherboard had a "D bracket"
with LEDs
which showed it getting stuck at first stage of POST. May be your
motherboard has something similar for diagnosis.

Cheers

David

On 3/5/07, darren_karp2001 <darren.karp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   Hi all,
>
> My Vista PC is dead!
>
> I've changed the mobo and the drives appear to spin up but no video
> output whatsoever. I've removed all PCI boards and am using the onbard
> video card and getting nothing at all on the monitor. Also, no beeps
> from the mobo when powering up which is unusual I think. I've tried
> with no drives (sata) connected so basically the mobo with its power
> connector and nothing else.
>
> Anyone got any ideas as to what could be wrong? Could it be the PSU?
> It's an Antec TruePower 380. I've measure the molex connectors and get
> 12v, etc. but don't know how to measure the mobo power connector as I
> can't get the PSU to start up if its not connected.
>
> Any advice really appreciated.
> Darren
>
>
>


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