🚀 go-pugleaf

On 2 Sep, 20:12, "Vanguard" <vangu...@mail.invalid> wrote:
> BertieBigBollox wrote ...
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> > "meerkat" wrote:
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> >> BertieBigBol wrote ...
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> >>> Initial PSU was a 250W Bestec, the new one is a 350W one...
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> >> You need to Know you`re getting your correct voltages under load.
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> > OK. First PSU wont even power on with Pin 14 shorted - so thats
> > knackered for starters.
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> Did you have a load on that PSU?  Shorting PS-ON to ground on the 20-
> or 24-pin power connector (from PSU to mobo) may not get the PSU to
> power on.  The PSU may be smart enough to know there is no point in
> powering up completely if there is no load on it.  Add a working hard
> drive on one of the power taps from the PSU.  Make sure none of the
> taps from the PSU are connected to anything other than the test hard
> drive.  Then short PS-ON (pin 14, green wire) to ground (a black
> wire).  With a hard drive connected, do you see and hear the fan
> inside the PSU is spinning?  Does the hard drive spin up?
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> I have yet to see mention that this computer ever did power up before.
> You never mentioned if this was a working system or something you just
> put together and it has yet to work.  If it was a working computer
> before, what did you change that then caused the computer not to power
> up?  Did you add some other hardware?
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> You said the "power LED on the mobo" lights up when you connect the
> old or new PSU to the motherboard.  And which LED is that?  The one on
> the front of the case?  Or an LED on the motherboard?

Yes. It was a working PC. Its a friends PC that has now stopped
working.

Apparently, the fan was making a noise and then it stopped working
altogether.

The LED on the actual mobo lights up.