🚀 go-pugleaf

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.

BTW - both in my and the German guys case - the original fault was
thought to be with the PSU.