Group: linux.gentoo.user
From: Enrico Weigelt
Date: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 12:00 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Power supply or motherboard dead?

* Joe Menola wrote:

> Quite possibly your cpu and/or cooling fan. To test this...pull your current
> units out, hook-up a known good fan (without any cpu) and apply power.
> If the fan spins, you've isolated your problem.

Depends on the board type. I've already seen boards which didn't
even turn on the fan if there's no CPU present.


cu
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