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June 05, 2005
I have this morning failed to install a new motherboard (an Asus P4P800-E) on my machine. The little internal LED is on indicating that power is getting to it somewhere somehow, but nothing else comes on. Yes, I've checked that the internal power connectors are connected. Tomorrow I will bring it to the friendly local computer store where they they have the decency not to laugh at me until I've left. Posted
by D. Weinberger at June 5, 2005 12:33 PM
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Almost always one of three problems:
* First, unscrew and carefully rescrew the motherboard on the machine.
* Second, the power supply is partly dead. I've had this happen before where the green light goes on but the supply is actually broken in some way.
* Third, the processors aren't seated properly.
Posted by: Glenn Fleishman | June 5, 2005 03:02 PM
When I had this happen, it was the power supply. The same power supply would work my older MOBO - just not the new one. Swapped it out and all was good. I can't imagine paying someone else to do this hardware stuff but it sure is a pain in the butt. So many things that under certain circumstances don't work.... Newer MOBO's are very critical of power supplies. If all ain't perfect, it refuses to turn on. Of cource - the green LED will still come on.
Posted by: Stephen | June 5, 2005 07:32 PM
Thanks, Glenn and Stephen. Glenn, I tried reseating the cpu and the board, and both seem fine. (Seem!) As for the power supply, anytihng is possible, but I'm replacing an Asus P4p800 with an Asus P4P800-E. You'd think they'd take the same power supply. But, you never know. So, it's off to the computer store with it tomorrow...
Posted by: David Weinberger | June 5, 2005 08:21 PM
Must be the return of bad electricity in your house....
Posted by: Tim | June 6, 2005 05:09 AM
Well done, Glenn and Stephen! Looks like it was the power supply. And somehow my audio card failed simultaneously: Even with the new power supply, if the audio card is in, the computer won't power up. Oh well. The new mobo has onboard audio that seems just as good.
Posted by: David Weinberger | June 17, 2005 09:05 AM