[ale] OT - hardware problem

[Joe Knapka]

I've already replaced the PS with a new-in-box one, with no change in
behavior.  So I don't think that's it.

It's a socket 939 mobo; those seem to be hard to get these days. Looks
like at least mobo and CPU, and probably RAM, will need to be
replaced.

Bleh.

-- JK

On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 9:25 AM, Scott Castaline <skotchman at gmail.com> wrote:
>  On 10/11/2010 10:43 AM, Joe Knapka wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 7:38 AM, Jim Kinney<jim.kinney at gmail.com>  wrote:
>>> true. easy test for that is to boot to the bios and leave it alone. There's
>>> no throttling in the bios for cpu speed AND you can run the temp page and
>>> watch for issues there.
>>
>> I was going to try this, but this morning the machine won't turn on at
>> all.  That is, press power button, fans spin up for about 1 second,
>> then immediately everything turns off.  Pulled the power switch off
>> the mobo and used a screwdriver between the pins to power up, and got
>> the same behavior.  Pulled the RAM, same behavior.  Wish I had an
>> alternate CPU to test.  Anyway I guess swapping out the mobo is the
>> next move.
>>
>> Thanks all,
>>
>> -- JK
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> If memory serves me correctly, you need a resistive load across the
> voltage outputs, otherwise the PSU will behave like that. They do make
> test plugs or at least used to for PSUs that provide the load needed to
> turn on. If it does the same thing with the plug then it's the PSU. Also
> I think that HDDs do provide enough load to trigger the PSU to stay on.
> Did you have any hdds, optical drives still plugged in? It's possible
> that one of them is dragging down the PSU.
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