On Tue, 2003-02-11 at 17:49, Wade Preston Shearer wrote: > i replaced the fan on my wife's computer. when she plugged it back in > it wouldn't turn on. > > i didn't touch anything else besides the fan. > > any ideas or suggestions as to where i might start debugging? > > how can you test to see if your power supply is fried?
There should be a light on the motherboard somewhere that's always lit up (usually there is). Also, the all modern NICs will link, even when the computer is off. I find that unplugging the power supply for a while helps. It discharges the internal switching circuitry. Also, start pulling i/o cards. Unplug all the drives, pull the ram. This happened to me, and a combination of all these things brought it back to life. I doubt that anything is burned out. Michael > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list -- Michael Torrie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
