hardware issue

[Brett I. Holcomb]

Check the output of the power supply and see if it's working and has proper 
voltages.  Or just replace it.  Before removing the power supply simply get 
a spare, put it beside the machine and connnect it.  See if the machine 
starts.  If so replace the bad one, if not something else is dead.

dep wrote:

> this is strange.
> 
> this morning my desktop machine just stopped. shut down.
> 
> it's an athlon 2.3; i thought that maybe the chip fan had died and
> had therefore shut everything down, but the fan certainly moves
> freely. i can't tell more than that because the switch, which is one
> of those non-switch switches, has no effect in bringing power to the
> machine.
> 
> my thought is that i popped a fuse in the power supply, but i can
> find no external fuse socket.
> 
> i'm utterly at a loss. informed adice, ill-informed suggestions, and
> anything else would be welcome.

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