[SATLUG] HW Question - No Power

[J. Patrick Lanigan]

On Saturday 31 August 2002 05:03 pm, J. Patrick Lanigan said unto the masses:
> I have had this full tower case sitting around for a while, but being the
> lazy geek I am, I haven't done anything with it because everthing fit
> (albeit tightly) in my mid tower. So I bought another HD and it was time to
> give my desktop a knew home. I swapped everthing case to case and was
> carefull to connect everything the same. I wanted to get it working before
> adding HW. Click the power button... nothing. Power supply fan kicks
> slightly, but then nothing. I realized that I had inadvertently filled AGP
> & PCI 1 which are shared. so I moved all the PCI cards down one, still
> nothing. I really needed a new power supply for this thing before and now
> with another HD and a DAT drive to add, I went off to CompUSA and purchased
> a nice 430W Antec and an ATX PS tester. The old PS is fine, but danged if I
> can figure out why nothing fires. I am saving the new PS for once I get
> everything straightened out.
>
> So, can anyone throw me a clue what could prevent the power supply from
> coming on at all?

Ground contact by the keybord/mouse conectors was not very good. That's what 
I thought from the beginning, but like I said, I a a lazy geek, and I didn't 
want to pull everything out to reattach the motherboard, doh!
-- 
 J. Patrick Lanigan
 Debian Linux (Sid) - 2.4.18-0513 on vagabond
 17:56:30 up  6:57,  1 user,  load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00