On Tuesday, October 08, 2013 10:21:25 AM dragorn wrote: > Thanks Joe and Dragorn for your replies. I'll reply to Joe after I try out his suggestions.
> 1 - PSU - You got a new one, so it's probably not that. The PSU was purchased and installed in September 2011. I tried two substitute PSUs, one on the original mobo and a different one on the new mobo. The substitute on the new mobo is known good, however it is an ATX12V v1.x. (It is Sean's Thermaltake PSU from the MHVLUG swap meet. It powers my secondary PC. The substitute on the old mobo I don't know if its good. I bought it on E-Bay. It's also atx12v 1.x. > 2 - Mobo - Older mobos have crappy caps which leak and explode, > eventually causing failures. New mobo, so probably not that. > 3 - Poorly connected hard drive. This was a bigger problem with IDE > than it is with SATA, so it's probably not relevant. I only have PATA HDD's. The old mobo had an IDE connector. The new mobo only has SATA connectors. I'm using a Maxtor 133 IDE PCI adapter card. > 4 - Bad, or mis-seated, RAM. If you moved your RAM to the new mobo, > it's probably not mis-seated (heat changes can cause flex which can > pop the ram slightly out, sometimes), but it might be outright bad. > Some systems will power up and scream, some won't even do that. > 5 - Bad, or disconnected, fan. The mobo monitors fan speed - and > might refuse to power up if the CPU fan isn't connected properly, > for example. > The CPU fan on the new mobo does spin. On the original mobo it doesn't. > Also the usual cautionary items; did you connect the aux PSU power, > does your video card need aux power and is it connected, etc. If > you're used to the older single-connector ATX power systems, newer > systems usually need an additional 6 or 8 pin power connector. Of > course this could be old news to you, too. My video card EVGA 512MB GeForce 210 is a low end card and doesn't need aux power. > > -- _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Nov 6 - Security: Locking Your Doors Dec 4 - OpenFlow: Open Standard for Networking Hardware Jan 8 - January Meeting
