Zman's Busted Computer

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Something is wrong with zman's computer, but we don't have many details.

 

I will kick off the thread with Shorty's useful post:

 

QUOTE(zman @ May 23 2006, 09:26 PM)

any computer experts here can tell me why puter will not turn on with a new power supply?  what else can it be?

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Diagnosing and fixing motherboard faults

 

"The next step is to remove all the expansion cards and disconnect the hard and floppy drives to see if they are holding the power rails down.(With EISA systems, make a note of which boards were in which slots to avoid the need to rebuild the system configuration later.) If the system starts to boot without the drives at-tached, re-attach them one by one until it no longer boots, to see which is the problem."