Re: Urgent PC Help Needed

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

That's fourth pin from the left on the side with the catch holding the
connector with pins down and wires coming out of the top. Should be the
only
green wire. There should be a set of black wires on the right of it.

Shorting the wrong pins will definitely lead to a dead PSU :-)

Cheers,

David

On 3/6/07, David Gumbrell <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> 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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