[clug] Any ideas on what to look for to get an old PC running?

[jhock]

Hi,

Some more info below:

Some times, if I disconnect the power to the mother board and then plug
it back in, the power light comes on the front of the machine.

Multi-meter indicates that power seems to be getting to the mother board
and the power switch.

On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 10:08 +1100, Chris Henman wrote:
> John,
> 
> When you say "nothing happened" what exactly did NOT happen ?  Any 
> lights? Any exhaust fan starting ?  Any "beeps"; they are usually a 
> message, like Morse code.
> Have you tried another power cord ?

OK.

>   Monitor OK ?

OK.

> How long has it been out of service?  

5 months.

> Have you checked the CMOS battery 
> if it still uses battery CMOS backup?  Usually a CR 20xx or something.

Battery OK. 3v output

> 
> Just a few thoughts I would try.
> 
> Regards,
> Chris Henman
> 
> jhock wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > Thanks to Ian (I love this list. It's so helpful) I have a power cord
> > for my old PC (MISI Pentium 4).  I have now unpacked it all from storage
> > however, when I switched it on nothing happened.  I don't want to spend
> > too much effort on it because I hope to soon get an Eee PC 10 with LINUX
> > (Once they are available in Australia) but I thought that I could use
> > this one as a proxy, print server, game machine for my five year old,
> > wireless modem firewall or something.  (I prefer to reuse than recycle.
> > Its more energy saving.)
> >
> > I was wondering if anybody has any advice on how to get it to work. EG.
> > is there likely to be a fuse inside, is there an area which I should
> > "jiggle" when I open it, is there a good spot to bang it like they do on
> > TV (Fonze type thoughts here)?  ;--)
> >
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> >
> > John
> >
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