On Tuesday 04 November 2003 09:06 pm, julian wrote: > On Tuesday 04 November 2003 10:46 pm, Bj�rn Olsson wrote: > > Anyone here good at diagnosing hardware failures? > > > > I recently got a spare Dell Optiplex GX1 to bring home from work. It came > > without memory, HDD och CD, so I had to search my stock for suitable > > parts. But today, when I were to bring life to my creation, it simply > > refused to cooperate! I feel very offended and rightfully upset :) > > > > Power to diodes on front YES > > Power to HDD YES > > Power to CD YES > > Power to CPU fan YES > > Power to expansion card YES > > Power to monitor YES > > Power to keyboard NJET > > > > And there was no signal to the monitor. I tried with two different > > monitors and a separate graphics card as well as the onboard one. > > > > > > Any suggestions welcomed > > > > Bj�rn > > You didn't mention swapping the PSU or mobo, but just in case... > I'm not sure if they still do it, but dell used to use a non-standard ATX > design. This meant you had to use a Dell power supply with a Dell > motherboard. When I tried upgrading a Dell with a new motherboard it took > me ages to work that out.
first, disconnect all the cables from the drives, and remove all the cards except video and memory, then try it. a reversed ide cable can cause the same malfunction symptoms (I know it ain't easy to get it backwards.... but it can be done, I promise, believe me, it can be done.
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