Lief Hendrickson wrote:
Is there anyone who can help test a motherboard? I bought a ASUS
CUSL2 mb on ebay. It was DOA. The guy sent another and it was also
DOA. I have two memory sticks both 256MB SDRAM and a couple of P3
CPUs (800 MHz and 1GHz). The basic test is to install CPU and memory,
attach power supply, video, and mouse and turn on and see if it will
POST. I would like to find someone with an ATX power supply (I have
one but have no way to verify it's not the problem) and a way to test
the memory for independent check so in case I did something wrong in
checking the mb.
Thanks.
I notice that you did not mention anything that draws much of a load.
When I was in computer repair, I recall having *some* power supplies
that would not give the OK signal to the motherboard if there was not
enough of a load. I ended up having to have a hard disk drive plugged
into the power of the power supply to give it enough of a load. I
didn't connect the data cable, not for the most basic test. But I
always connected the power. Several motherboards that otherwise would
not POST, suddenly came to life, simply by giving enough load to the
power supply. Weird.
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