>Yes, you must have your power supply plugged into a motherboard or get a >tester from PC Power & Cooling for cheap. Go ahead & try the spare >motherboard. I suspect your old MB is toast. >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