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by Another Scott
6/5/02 12:16:53 PM
6/5/02 12:29:54 PM
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New Speak of the devil....
I'm putting a new PC together now. It worked fine when first turned on. I changed the BIOS settings some (turbo mode, etc.), put in the Win2K CD-ROM, rebooted, got a BIOS message that the floppy drive failed (noticed the power cable wasn't connected), Win2K started booting from the CD. I hit CAD to end the bootup, then turned the power off.

I connected the floppy power connector, powered it on and nothing. A LED lights on the motherboard, but the PS fan doesn't run.

:-(

I'm in the process of diagnosing it. I suspect something died in the PS.

PC Power and Cooling has an ATX power supply diagnosis page [link|http://www.pcpowercooling.com/support/index_ATX.htm|here] that I'm going through now. Maybe it'll help you too.

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< a few minutes later... >

In my case I didn't need to go through the PS diagnosis.

Since the system worked before I plugged in the floppy power connector, I unplugged the floppy power connector and powered the system up. It came up fine. I then turned it off again, reconnected the floppy power connector, and powered it up. It again came up fine.

I suspect that I didn't have the floppy power connector installed correctly, or gremlins....

I hope you figure out what's happening with your system.

Cheers,
Scott.
Collapse Edited by Another Scott June 5, 2002, 12:29:54 PM EDT
Speak of the devil....
I'm putting a new PC together now. It worked fine when first turned on. I changed the BIOS settings some (turbo mode, etc.), put in the Win2K CD-ROM, rebooted, got a BIOS message that the floppy drive failed (noticed the power cable wasn't connected), Win2K started booting from the CD. I hit CAD to end the bootup, then turned the power off. I connected the floppy power connector, powered it on and nothing. A LED lights on the motherboard, but the PS fan doesn't run. :-( I'm in the process of diagnosing it. I suspect something died in the PS. PC Power and Cooling has an ATX power supply diagnosis page here that I'm going through now. Maybe it'll help you too. Cheers, Scott.
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     Can someone help me troubleshoot this problem? - (cwbrenn) - (32) - June 4, 2002, 03:04:22 PM EDT
         Sounds like a power problem to me. - (Another Scott) - June 4, 2002, 03:19:10 PM EDT
         one off the wall maybe - (boxley) - (2) - June 4, 2002, 04:34:32 PM EDT
             I'll try that. - (cwbrenn) - (1) - June 4, 2002, 05:06:53 PM EDT
                 Alas, alack. - (cwbrenn) - June 4, 2002, 10:21:58 PM EDT
         Best bet for testing PS - (Steven A S) - (1) - June 4, 2002, 04:34:46 PM EDT
             I've gone one further than that. - (cwbrenn) - June 4, 2002, 05:04:12 PM EDT
         Hehehe.... Okay. Now we really get sticky... - (folkert) - (10) - June 4, 2002, 10:26:34 PM EDT
             you mean... it might be a problem with the TOWER? - (cwbrenn) - (5) - June 4, 2002, 10:41:30 PM EDT
                 Case in point! - (folkert) - (4) - June 4, 2002, 11:15:20 PM EDT
                     Ok, it's not the case - (cwbrenn) - (3) - June 5, 2002, 10:57:44 AM EDT
                         BOG.... - (folkert) - June 5, 2002, 09:13:38 PM EDT
                         On using force - - (Ashton) - (1) - June 6, 2002, 01:40:39 AM EDT
                             Grounding motherboards. - (static) - June 6, 2002, 08:00:48 AM EDT
             Uh.. yeah - (Ashton) - (3) - June 4, 2002, 10:59:06 PM EDT
                 Saw a huge batch... - (folkert) - (2) - June 4, 2002, 11:30:00 PM EDT
                     PC electronics appears most often to be a POS - (Ashton) - (1) - June 5, 2002, 12:25:18 AM EDT
                         Splain'd - (folkert) - June 5, 2002, 09:05:28 PM EDT
         Longshots - (Ashton) - June 4, 2002, 10:47:21 PM EDT
         The more I test, the more confused I get - (cwbrenn) - (1) - June 5, 2002, 12:01:13 PM EDT
             Speak of the devil.... - (Another Scott) - June 5, 2002, 12:29:54 PM EDT
         Interesting. Encouraging results. - (cwbrenn) - (2) - June 6, 2002, 05:22:04 AM EDT
             You call that encouraging? - (drewk) - (1) - June 6, 2002, 10:32:07 AM EDT
                 Yeah, well... - (cwbrenn) - June 6, 2002, 11:40:16 AM EDT
         Mysterly solved... and I AM AN IDIOT :) - (cwbrenn) - (8) - June 6, 2002, 04:24:04 PM EDT
             This is like the 'made for IE' pages that break in Mozilla - (drewk) - June 6, 2002, 04:45:20 PM EDT
             Idiot? Come on! - (Meerkat) - June 6, 2002, 08:13:36 PM EDT
             Not an idiot. - (static) - (5) - June 6, 2002, 10:32:30 PM EDT
                 Definitely Not an idiot. - (jbrabeck) - (4) - June 7, 2002, 09:02:06 AM EDT
                     Oddly though - - (Ashton) - (3) - June 7, 2002, 07:06:47 PM EDT
                         That's rare! - (static) - June 9, 2002, 02:14:42 AM EDT
                         Don't recall ever seeing "ground loop" mentioned . . - (Andrew Grygus) - (1) - June 9, 2002, 02:31:35 AM EDT
                             Could be mfg.-memory on that phrase.. - (Ashton) - June 10, 2002, 01:59:14 AM EDT

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