OT: troubleshooting steps on a custom-built PC?

[Madison Kelly]

Aaron Vegh wrote:
> I'd love to hear a little more about shorting the ground to test the
> PSU. Do I need a wire to connect the mainboard power plug to
> something?

Unplug the PSU from everything. Plug back in one high-load device (ie: 
an old hard drive), preferably one with no value "just in case". Now 
look at the biggest power connector and in the middle on one side you 
should see a single green wire. Take something conductive (wire, 
paperclip, etc) and short that green wire with any of the black wires. 
Now plug in/turn the back rocker-switch on and see if the hard drive and 
PSU fans spins up. If so, your PSU is okay. If not, it's toast.

Again, do this at your own risk. :) If you want pictures google for 
this. I can't find any off hand but I know that I have seen articles 
showing how to do this before.

Madison
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