-=PCTechTalk=- Re: puzzling problem
- From: GMan <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 21:19:51 -0400
Jo Ann,
Save yourself some grief and try their old 300W supply again. It won't
overload if everything is already unplugged/disconnected and it'll tell you
if the 400W from your son got fried by the throwing of that 110V switch. If
you get the beeps with the old PS connected, you'll know that the owner
needs to buy a new, more powerful PS. If you don't get anything "new" with
the old PS, you'll know the 400 is more than likely not the problem and that
something else somewhere else still isn't right. But, either way, you'll
still have your own system still intact. :O)
Peace,
G
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"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask!"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jo Ann Weaver" <bookworm54@xxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2008 9:04 PM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: puzzling problem
>
> GMan,
>
> The power supply I'm using is a 400 watt that came out of my son's
> computer
> yesterday. He says it was working fine,
> he just wanted a bigger one cause he's running a lot of stuff. It should
> be
> big enough as the old one was a 300 watt,
> and there's not really much on this box. Just a 64 MB vudeo card, a sound
> card, ethernet card , USB card with two ports,
> and the two optical drives, a DVD player and a CD-RW. I had some brand new
> IDE cables that came with my Asus board.
> changed the hard drive and the CD drive one as well.
>
> I've now removed all cards except the video and the one CD drive works
> again. The PS does have a four pin plug that is plugged
> in. I set both drives to cable select, no go. Whenever it won't boot the
> hard drive light is solid red. I agree it seems like a power supply
> problem.
> Would it be worthwhile (shudder) to pull the 500 watt PS out of my
> computer
> and try it, or else geta new power supply? Could the bord have a short
> somewhere?
>
> Jo Ann
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