When you’re assembling a PC and you’re connecting the power supply to the motherboard, all of the power cables must be connected in order for the PC to power on.
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1 Jacob Davies // Dec 28, 2005 at 5:37 pm
It’s a good thing to check. I used to laugh at the tech support people who would always ask you to check that it your computer was plugged in. Then I did some part-time tech support at the company I was at working at and indeed, “Is it plugged in?” and “Is it turned on?” were always my first two questions. Followed by “Have you tried rebooting?”
2 acm // Dec 29, 2005 at 10:06 am
man, you tech guys know all the tricks!!
3 Jonathan Gennick // Dec 29, 2005 at 2:05 pm
Heh. Well, don’t feel bad there Rafe. I about panic’d last week after replacing a north-bridge fan with a heat-sink on my main, work PC. The fan had died suddenly, leaving me dead in the water, causing me to pay a good deal to have a heat-sink sent overnight by Federal Express. I felt I was taking a bit of a risk by replacing a fan with just a heat-sink, but others had done it and recommended the approach. Anyway, I turned on the PC. The BIOS flashed a number. And that was it. I thought I’d toasted my motherboard. Turned out that I’d simply forgotten to plug the power leads back into my SATA drives.
All is well now, but for a few moments I thought it was “new motherboard” time.
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