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Re: Wireless PCI on Pentium3, 440Bx ?

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From: Quentin David Jones
Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:46
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Greetings Mike,

Thanks for your detailed and helpful commenst :-)

"Mike" <cootamike@iinet.net.hey-you> wrote in message
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> When you turn the system on, does anything happen (fans/HDD spin up?), if
> not then it is most likely that the card is putting the load on the power
> supply too high and will then refuse to start up. a good way to check this
> is to disconnect every drive in the system and any fans (exluding the CPU
> fan) and anything else which is not critical to starting the computer and
> see what happens, if it comes to life then this is precisely what is
> wrong...

The system DOES power up - the fans start, LEDS light, the hard disk spins
and makes a slight seek noise as normal...



> If the system spins up (fans, drives ect) but no intelligent life is
found,
> get a hold of a multimeter, put the black probe on the case and check the
> voltage of the orange wire (AT PSU's, don't know if it is still the same
for
> ATX, we want the "power good" wire), if there is no voltage then you have
> problems.....

OK,
I might look into this,
thanks.

Quentin
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