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DOA Dell 4100.
The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA.
If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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J. Bronson opined: The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d DOA ?"Dead on Arrival " or is it http://www.doa.state.va.us/ :-) -- Yddap Remove guts to reply |
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The power supply is unlikely to be your problem, rather
something else is shorting out the supply. The supply is not ATX docs here; http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edoc...in_assignments "J. Bronson" wrote in message ... The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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J. Bronson wrote:
If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Try unplugging all the {hard,floppy,optical} drive power connectors and see if the problem goes away. Then plug them back in one at a time to find the piece that's drawing too much... |
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Take a 6 pack out of petty cash.
You nailed it. I took everything off of the mother board. It tried to boot, but of course failed. Put one board at a time and tried starting it. It kept trying until I put in the video board no more trying to boot, acted DOA. Swapped video boards and it booted fine Thanks Jerry On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:46:03 -0500, "Pen" wrote: The power supply is unlikely to be your problem, rather something else is shorting out the supply. The supply is not ATX docs here; http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edoc...in_assignments "J. Bronson" wrote in message .. . The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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And the video card was? Let me guess. nVidia graphics chip? ... Ben Myers
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:22:41 GMT, J. Bronson wrote: Take a 6 pack out of petty cash. You nailed it. I took everything off of the mother board. It tried to boot, but of course failed. Put one board at a time and tried starting it. It kept trying until I put in the video board no more trying to boot, acted DOA. Swapped video boards and it booted fine Thanks Jerry On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:46:03 -0500, "Pen" wrote: The power supply is unlikely to be your problem, rather something else is shorting out the supply. The supply is not ATX docs here; http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edoc...in_assignments "J. Bronson" wrote in message . .. The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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You're welcome. Glad to help.
"J. Bronson" wrote in message ... Take a 6 pack out of petty cash. You nailed it. I took everything off of the mother board. It tried to boot, but of course failed. Put one board at a time and tried starting it. It kept trying until I put in the video board no more trying to boot, acted DOA. Swapped video boards and it booted fine Thanks Jerry On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:46:03 -0500, "Pen" wrote: The power supply is unlikely to be your problem, rather something else is shorting out the supply. The supply is not ATX docs here; http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edoc...in_assignments "J. Bronson" wrote in message . .. The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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Yep, right again, nVidia On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:59:53 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: And the video card was? Let me guess. nVidia graphics chip? ... Ben Myers On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:22:41 GMT, J. Bronson wrote: Take a 6 pack out of petty cash. You nailed it. I took everything off of the mother board. It tried to boot, but of course failed. Put one board at a time and tried starting it. It kept trying until I put in the video board no more trying to boot, acted DOA. Swapped video boards and it booted fine Thanks Jerry On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:46:03 -0500, "Pen" wrote: The power supply is unlikely to be your problem, rather something else is shorting out the supply. The supply is not ATX docs here; http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edoc...in_assignments "J. Bronson" wrote in message ... The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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Easy guess. Replaced quite a few dead or improperly functioning graphics cards
with nVidia chips. Heat seems to be the culprit. The chips run hot and often don't get adequate cooling. Thanks for the additional piece of info... Ben Myers On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 00:29:02 GMT, J. Bronson wrote: Yep, right again, nVidia On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:59:53 GMT, ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote: And the video card was? Let me guess. nVidia graphics chip? ... Ben Myers On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 23:22:41 GMT, J. Bronson wrote: Take a 6 pack out of petty cash. You nailed it. I took everything off of the mother board. It tried to boot, but of course failed. Put one board at a time and tried starting it. It kept trying until I put in the video board no more trying to boot, acted DOA. Swapped video boards and it booted fine Thanks Jerry On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 16:46:03 -0500, "Pen" wrote: The power supply is unlikely to be your problem, rather something else is shorting out the supply. The supply is not ATX docs here; http://docs.us.dell.com/support/edoc...in_assignments "J. Bronson" wrote in message m... The daughter shut down her Dell 4100 last nitght, this AM. it's DOA. If you unplug the power for a while then plug it back in and push the power button the fan "twitches" and thats all that happens!!! Power supply????????????????? If so is it atx compatable???? The Dell number is ps-5201-7d |
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