I recently aquired an old PC from a friend (P2/233) and carried out a few minor modifications to it. Everything was working fine until I switched it on this morning and there was no power. Just
dead.
My first reaction was that that the PSU (which is about 4 years old) had finally gone down. I have a new PSU and fitted this unit but the machine still appeared to be dead. However I noticed that when the power-on button on the front panel of the case was pressed a little spurt of power would apparently go through to the fans and they would turn a few times before stopping. I changed the PSU back to the old unit and the samre thing happened again! In fact if I keep on pressing the on-button I can get the CPU fan to keep spinning! But still no power to anything else.
Does anyone know what is the cause of this problem?
Maybe the power-on switch is worn out or defective. If so will I have to get another case?
Thanks, Alan
dead.
My first reaction was that that the PSU (which is about 4 years old) had finally gone down. I have a new PSU and fitted this unit but the machine still appeared to be dead. However I noticed that when the power-on button on the front panel of the case was pressed a little spurt of power would apparently go through to the fans and they would turn a few times before stopping. I changed the PSU back to the old unit and the samre thing happened again! In fact if I keep on pressing the on-button I can get the CPU fan to keep spinning! But still no power to anything else.
Does anyone know what is the cause of this problem?
Maybe the power-on switch is worn out or defective. If so will I have to get another case?
Thanks, Alan