If you get absolutely nothing, I think you mobo is probably toast. Even with no CPU, the fans should start. Tom Veldhouse veldy at veldy.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Miller, John" <JMiller2 at dainrauscher.com> To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org> Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2001 7:22 AM Subject: [TCLUG] Dead computer > I got up this morning and turned on my computer and nothing happened, > not even the fan on the p/s turned on. I swapped out the power supply > with another that I had and still nothing. I took the original p/s and > plugged it in and turned it on (I had it connected to an old pc switch), > nothing. I remember reading a thread on a similar subject about p/s's > and whether they could run with out a mb. My question is this. I have > a mb laying around, it has a cpu and memory on it. If I plugged a p/s > into it and turned it on, would that be enough to get the p/s working > (provided it does work)? Could this be a result of age (the computer > and mb are old (Cyrix 200 and AOpen 5A)) > > Thanks > > John Miller > Dain Rauscher > Information Services - Capital Markets > Software Developer > Phone: 612-547-7573 > Fax: 612-547-7580 > IS - Mail Stop: T23A > E-mail: MailTo:JMiller2 at DainRauscher.com > > > _______________________________________________ > tclug-list mailing list > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >