Power Spike

External Since: May 20, 2004 Posts: 61

....now that's enlightening ! - "Added memory - now it booted! "

If you don't know much about what you you're talking about e.g. hardware -
and from your post it looks like you don't - DON'T POST

regards, Richard

"barry martin" wrote in message

> Moir:
>
> M > Sorry if this is off topic. Maybe someone can point me in the right
> M > direction.
> M >
> M > Power spike blew power supply in my Windows98 machine. Gigabyte GWMM7
> with
> M > Intel810 chipset.
> M >
> M > Replaced power supply, motherboard "light" lights up but nothing else
> M > happens! No BIOS beep codes, no hard drive running. Disconnected all
> other
> M > drives still nothing. Took out ram, still no beep codes. Removed CMOS
> M > battery for a few mins and put back, still nothing!
>
> Put the RAM back in the motherboard - read somewhere where a power
> supply has to have at least a 10% on the main supply (presumeably the
> motherboard connector) to run. Had a similar problem here: hooked up
> bare motherboard and video card - no go. (PSU was known good though
> possibly the fan was starting to stick.) Added floppy, still nothing.
> Added memory - now it booted!
>
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External Since: May 08, 2004 Posts: 7

Moir:

M > Sorry if this is off topic. Maybe someone can point me in the right
M > direction.
M >
M > Power spike blew power supply in my Windows98 machine. Gigabyte GWMM7 with
M > Intel810 chipset.
M >
M > Replaced power supply, motherboard "light" lights up but nothing else
M > happens! No BIOS beep codes, no hard drive running. Disconnected all other
M > drives still nothing. Took out ram, still no beep codes. Removed CMOS
M > battery for a few mins and put back, still nothing!

Put the RAM back in the motherboard - read somewhere where a power
supply has to have at least a 10% on the main supply (presumeably the
motherboard connector) to run. Had a similar problem here: hooked up
bare motherboard and video card - no go. (PSU was known good though
possibly the fan was starting to stick.) Added floppy, still nothing.
Added memory - now it booted!

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