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Completely powerless!
Please help:
My desktop sustained what I thought to be minor damage when I lost power a couple weeks ago. Apparently a surge jumped my cheap and old protector and fried my power supply. With my new PS, I can't get anything to "fire up". I thought the power switch might have gotten a bit of a cookin' through all this, but I tried to jump the power switch pins to no avail. Any suggestions please, Joe |
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Sometimes failing power supplies take stuff that's connected to them along
to the end of the road. If you can try that new power supply in another computer to see if it's good, then you'll have an idea about it. Or borrow another one and see if it starts your computer. Or both. Wow! :-) -- Ed Light Smiley :-/ MS Smiley :-\ |
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jrwalt wrote:
Please help: My desktop sustained what I thought to be minor damage when I lost power a couple weeks ago. Apparently a surge jumped my cheap and old protector and fried my power supply. With my new PS, I can't get anything to "fire up". I thought the power switch might have gotten a bit of a cookin' through all this, but I tried to jump the power switch pins to no avail. Any suggestions please, Joe Dead motherboard, and likely everything else in the case. -- Are you registered as a bone marrow donor? You regenerate what you donate. You are offered the chance to donate only if you match a person on the recipient list. Call your local Red Cross and ask about registering to be a bone marrow donor. spam trap: replace shyah_right! with hotmail when replying |
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First, do you even know the old power supply was defective?
Without a 3.5 digit multimeter, you could only speculate. Second, protectors adjacent to computers do not try to stop the destructive type of surge - they don't even claim to. They can even make is easier for surge to bypass power supply to damage modem, motherboard, etc. Made obvious when you follow one AC wire from surge protector that connects directly to chassis and motherboard. Third, any power supply (even 30 years ago) must not even damage the rest of the computer. However so many only recommend power supplies on price. Too many clone computers are built with power supplies that don't even have that circuit considered essential 30 years ago. Yes, it is possible that the power supply damaged rest of computer. But only because some human failed to do his job - first read specifications. Four power outage is not a surge. Surge protectors don't see nor car about power outages. surge protectors remain inert until 120 VAC rises in excess of 300 volts. You have a power loss - approaching zero volts. Any properly constructed power supply is not damaged by low AC voltages. But again, did the human buy power supply on price - or use technical specs to purchase value? This is what you may discover. Many computer parts could cause your problem. Trick (and it is simple) is to identify which is probably that defective component. To get the job done right, quick, and accurately, the good technician has a 3.5 digit multimeter as found in Home Depot, Radio Shack, Sears, etc. They are that cheap, that powerful, that ubiquitous, and that essential. Motherboard is where power supply controls are located. Does that motherboard control circuit even get power? Measure voltage on wire from power supply to motherboard. Voltage from +5VSB (purple) wire to black (ground) wire must be +5 volts even when computer is powered off but plugged in. Next monitor voltage on green wire. Should be near +5 volts when power is off AND should drop to near zero volts when power button is pressed. Until you have first taken these measurements, then you have no clue as to what may or may not be defective. Voltages on other important wires are provided in a chart in: http://www.hardwaresite.net/faqpowersupply.html jrwalt wrote: Please help: My desktop sustained what I thought to be minor damage when I lost power a couple weeks ago. Apparently a surge jumped my cheap and old protector and fried my power supply. With my new PS, I can't get anything to "fire up". I thought the power switch might have gotten a bit of a cookin' through all this, but I tried to jump the power switch pins to no avail. Any suggestions please, Joe |
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do you have a USB hub with power on it? Remove the USB leads and try
again... long shot but a mate of mine had a machine that wouldn't turn on and it ended up being the 5V "leaking" back from the USB hub that was fooling the electronics in the ATX PSU there was a fault condition. "jrwalt" wrote in message arthlink.net... Please help: My desktop sustained what I thought to be minor damage when I lost power a couple weeks ago. Apparently a surge jumped my cheap and old protector and fried my power supply. With my new PS, I can't get anything to "fire up". I thought the power switch might have gotten a bit of a cookin' through all this, but I tried to jump the power switch pins to no avail. Any suggestions please, Joe |
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