Have a dell deminsion & powersupply gives power to motherboard( green light on motherboard). I turn power on and power light stays on, doesn't post or turn on moniter, no harddrive activity. I noticed that the fan for the power supply doesn't come on when power button is pressed.should powersupply be replaced or do I have an bigger issue?
proudfather 0 Newbie Poster
Suspishio 32 Posting Virtuoso Team Colleague
Very difficult to say what problem you've got.
What would I do? If it doesn't POST, I'd be suspicious of both the mobo and PSU. The fgact tht there's no HDD activity (please be certain about this), points to the PSU.
The PSU is cheap to replace - but that decision should be in the context of whether or not this is the time to change PC whereupon you can slave the HDD to retain data.
Whaddaya think?
cguan_77 8 Nearly a Posting Virtuoso
test your power supply by shorting the gray wire to any black wire, check if it is still kicking...
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