Re: Hardware Problem?

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Must be my lucky day. Yep, the machine has been tried from several
different
outlets, two different homes... etc. But my luck is that I happened to
have another
old computer and its motherboard has the same CPU socket. I replaced the MB
in the non functioning machine... and that fixed it.
Earl

"Harry Ohrn" <harry---@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I once had a case where the reset switch was faulty and essentially stuck
on so that when the computer was powered up it was as thought the reset
switch was continuously depressed. Try unplugging the reset switch from the
mother board or both reset and power switch and then simply short the 2
pins which the power switch plugs into. You use a small screw driver to
short the pins by simply allowing the two pins to briefly be connected.

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Harry Ohrn MS MVP [Shell\User]
www.webtree.ca/windowsxp


"Earl Partridge" <earlpNG@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Windows XP Home
This is apparently a hardware problem but thought there'd be some pretty
good
ideas of the problem here. No power, no lights, no fan action, no HD
noise... nothing at all.
Checked swith for continuity - ok
Checked power supply in another computer - ok
Tried another power supply in this computer - still nothing.

Suspect bad component on motherboard. Is there anything specific I could
look
for on the botherboard? Perhaps replacing the motherboard would be best
idea?

Motherboard is K7 - M810XLM, Socket 462

Earl






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