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Dead Motherboard??? What do you guys think????
davieboynj:
95% of the time its a power supply. the question is, what else did the power supply take down with it...
krick:
Speaking of power supplies, there's a new power supply issue that has started appearing recently. It obviously isn't what is going on with the original poster's machine but I thought it was relevant in light of the recent posts.
If you have a new high-efficiency power supply, combined with system that doesn't draw much power (usually mATX with integrated video, and often using an AMD CPU), when you turn on the sytem, the fans spin but it won't POST. More info...
http://forums.silentpcreview.com/viewtopic.php?t=30289
I'm helping a friend build a sytem that has this problem. I'm making a load resistor for the 12V line that pugs into a spare drive power connector that should hopefully fix the problem.