computer won't power up

[Tyler Aviss]

While you've got it open, you might want to check to see if any of the
capacitors are "poofy", like so:

http://www.dwarfsoft.com/GameDev/blowncap.jpg

I've had similar symptoms with boards having flaky caps.



On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:29 AM, Daniel Armstrong <dwarmstrong-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 5:12 AM, edward chin <edchin99-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>> I had similar problems with my box as my
>> Antec power supply was failing. I replaced
>> the power supply with one from a problem
>> free box and it solved the problem.
>> Then, I got a new supply for the problem
>> free box. (no sense in wasting time with
>> moving power supplies back and forth -
>> saves time on testing the supplies, too)
>
> That is what I am going to do... Bring up the PSU from my own box and
> install it and see if things improve.
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