Re: PC Power Supplies

["Rob Iles" <rob.iles@xxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Piers - need CPU on board at a bare minimum.

I'd try *just* mobo + cpu + Seaker (no graphics card, no RAM) 1st - if it
doesn't post (beep at all) - mobo / CPU are likely to be toast.

If it does *something*, add RAM, and the post-code should change.

next, add graphics card - and if you're a lucky chap, you'll have a working
system.

proceed to add hard + optical disks and away you go.

HTH,

Rob


2008/5/7 Piers Kittel <mailing@xxxxxxx>:

>
> >> Any ideas? I guess I can pull out the cmos battery for an
hour or so
> >> to make sure the settings have gone, but anything else I can
try?
> >> Remove the cpu?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
>
> Oh yeah I forgot, check for any blown caps on the motherboard. I.e.
> capacitors that are bulging or leaking. Some examples are in pics
> below:
>
> http://www.pavelec.net/adam/CapsCrop.sized.jpg
> http://jpowell.blogs.com/jason_powell_church_it/images/dellcaps.jpg
>
> This seems to be a fairly common motherboard failure lately.
>
> Cheers - Piers
>
>


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