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Old March 13th 16, 07:29 PM posted to microsoft.public.windows.vista.general
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Default HP Compaq: DOA - Obvious Things To Check?

Family members HP Compaq/Older Athlon X2 just went belly-up.

Only sign of life is a single green led glowing on the mobo: no power
supply fan, no CPU fan, no response to DVD drive's eject button...

First thought was power supply, but when I swapped in a known good power
supply, no change.

Then I figured "Maybe the on/off switch"... so I pulled out the switch
and used a knife to jumper the two leads coming into it - figuring that
would duplicate the action of the switch... but no luck there either.

Unless somebody has a better idea, next thing I am going to do is to
revisit the power supply and verify correct voltage on each output lead.
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Pete Cresswell