🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <dvtdhs8t0akqdp84k8miuo0fumkdfeuq21@4ax.com>, Nospam wrote:
>On Mon, 8 May 2000 12:51:44 +0000, martin@chiron-s.demon.co.uk (Martin
>Smith) wrote:
>
>>I am having a slight problem with a new case which I
>>originally thought just had a bad psu, so I replaced it 
>>but an still faced with a deafening silence when switching on.
>
>I recently purchased an ATX case and built a system into it.  On
>switching on - zilch.  A few days of ripping out and putting stuff
>back in and no solution came.  Eventually I replaced the motherboard
>and everything worked syraight away.  BUt, the original motherboard
>built into a different ATX case, fired up first time and continues to
>work.   I have also spoken to a chap in Germany who had exactly the
>same problem.  He eventually replaced the case to cure the problem.
>
>I suspected that the original motherboard was shorting to the case and
>suspected the area of the motherboard where it is screwed to the
>backplate.  Perhaps some boards just made close enough to the right
>size.

yes that rings a bell, this is part of a batch of 3 machines
2 small cases one large, all the mobos work in the small cases
none in the large, even with brand new psu to replace the original
brand new psu, anyway, we are going to change the case for a small one
...that should fix it

-- 
Martin Smith