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geeoh · 12-15-2002, 03:32 PM

Maybe of some help

After using the valuable information posted in this forum (thanks HAL9000 for starting the tips and tricks) I had a situation that was a variant of several different ones. I am putting a computer together using a couple of older computers and there parts with a "new power supply" and a newer amd athlon 1.4 and ddr motherboard. These parts all worked on there own in there respective cases but when I assembled them in the "Best Of Parts Case" all that worked was the light on the cdrom and the case fan (the cdrom drawer would open and fan on the power supply was working) but there were NO beeps and the monitor stayed in its sleep mode. After going over the various parts as HAL9000 and other forum members suggested I connected a different PSU and now the computer starts and runs. Somewhere in changing out the new PSU (during testing) in one case to the better case one of the 20 Pin connector wires failed as I have checked it for continuity and it is where it is attached inside of plastic housing onto the metal connector. Hope this may help someone else.

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12-15-2002, 03:32 PM	#86
geeoh Member (3 bit) Join Date: Dec 2002 Posts: 5	PSU Information Maybe of some help After using the valuable information posted in this forum (thanks HAL9000 for starting the tips and tricks) I had a situation that was a variant of several different ones. I am putting a computer together using a couple of older computers and there parts with a "new power supply" and a newer amd athlon 1.4 and ddr motherboard. These parts all worked on there own in there respective cases but when I assembled them in the "Best Of Parts Case" all that worked was the light on the cdrom and the case fan (the cdrom drawer would open and fan on the power supply was working) but there were NO beeps and the monitor stayed in its sleep mode. After going over the various parts as HAL9000 and other forum members suggested I connected a different PSU and now the computer starts and runs. Somewhere in changing out the new PSU (during testing) in one case to the better case one of the 20 Pin connector wires failed as I have checked it for continuity and it is where it is attached inside of plastic housing onto the metal connector. Hope this may help someone else. _________________________ Remember Murphys Law "the last thing you replace is the first thing that goes bad"