-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Mother Board

Steve,
    As long as you had a monitor connected and received nothing on it, the 
board is most likely shot.  Relying solely on a power LED isn't always 
enough to rule out other things.

Peace,
GMan

"The only dumb questions are the ones that are never asked!"

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <DeaconDeamon@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, August 26, 2007 4:23 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Mother Board


> Well G. It looks the the mother board is shot.
> I moved the m/b with the 866 CPU from th tower with the bad switches to 
> the other tower. After checking and double checking and then triple 
> checking all the connection I tried to fire it up.
>
> All 3 fans started running as soon as I hit the switch.  The lights for 
> the cd, floppy and h/d all came on , I guess checking for something there, 
> then went out after a second or 2, maybe a little more.
> However no power led came on.  I checked it again to make sure it was 
> plugged on to the right pins and tried again.  Same results, fans and 
> leds.
>
>  It was worth a try.  Don't think I missed anything.
>
> I'll most likely put the old M/B iback in and put it back together.  Post 
> on my local freecycle.  It's old and slow, something like me, but maybe 
> someone can still use it.
>
> Steve 

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