The Doc 'Tip of the Week'

[DrGuile]

Heya..
This time a little troubleshooting advice taken from my real life experience... its so recent, its still smoking...

If you think you have a faulty power supply, take a power supply from another machine and put it in the place of the possibly-faulty one. DONT take the possibly-faulty and put it in a different machine to see if it works, you could fry a second computer... its the expensive way to know you powersupply is faulty...

I saw a mobo fry for the first time a few minutes ago...luckily it wasn't my fault...To make matter worse it was a P2-350..ARG!

I'm on a run, so I'll give you a second advice (its a 2 for 1). If you power-on your computer and nothing happen, it is often because the IDE connector is out of its socket. The link between the cause and effect? no idea http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

Dr Guile

[AuraEdge]

Same thing happened to me!....aside from the frying thing. My supply didnt work and then we tested with a working one and it worked...but when we pluged the flaulty one back it, it worked..kinda weird...figured it was giving off brownouts or surges or somthing, so I got a new power supply. That story wasnt going anywhere so ill stop http://www.sysopt.com/forum/smile.gif

[socalgal]

Yep! That's good advice! http://www.sysopt.com/forum/wink.gif

[BigMac]

It took me a week to work out my IDE lead was loose last year.