On Mon, 2005-05-02 at 17:13 -0700, Aaron Burt wrote: > On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 08:01:13PM -0700, Tyler Nugent wrote: > > Can't get motherboard to power up with simplist hardware configuration. > > With > > 1 CPU in slot1, ATX24-pin and 8pin connected, heatsink fan connected to > > CPUFAN1 (no keyboard, no mouse, no video). The power supply fan spins once > > when activated, nothing on the board spins. Oddly, plugging the CPU fan > > into > > CPUFAN2 or any other fan header the fan will spin once when the power > > supply > > fan spins, but then nothing. Tyan tech says that this suggests that > > stand-by > > power is getting to the board, but the board is still unable to power up > > completely. > > By "spins once" you mean the fans make about one turn and then stop? > > Sounds like a bad power supply to me. I hope it hasn't damaged your mobo. >
I had this problem before where it would spin once or so and stop. It turned out that some of the capacitors were bad. It's quite common to hear about it seems. Might be worth checking them all for swollen tops or leakage. http://www.vp6-board.com/images/caps/RAM3.png -Robby -- /****************************************************** * Robby Russell, Owner.Developer.Geek * PLANET ARGON, Open Source Solutions & Web Hosting * Portland, Oregon | p: 503.351.4730 | f: 815.642.4068 * www.planetargon.com | www.robbyonrails.com *******************************************************/ _______________________________________________ PDXLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlug.org/mailman/listinfo/pdxlug IRC: irc.freenode.net #pdxlug
