2 Feb
1999
2 Feb
'99
9:46 a.m.
I realize this is way OT, but hope someone can give me some advice.
I am trying to install an ATX MB in an ATX case. All jumpers have been set
by the book. There is a switch on the power supply, and another on the
front of the case. This latter is a momentary contact type.
With the MB outside the case on a wooden surface and nothing connected
except the power supply plug and the front push button, all that I get is a
twitch from the cpu cooling fan, on only the first push, after that nothing
until it sets for a while.
Since this is the first time I have tangled with an ATX I have no spare
parts to substitute, so any help on how this power supply is supposed to
operate would be much appreciated.
Regards
Charlie Fox
Charles E. Fox
Chas E. Fox Video Productions
793 Argyle Rd. Windsor N8Y 3J8 Ont. Canada
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2 Feb
2 Feb
11:45 a.m.
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Subject: Need some O.T. help
I realize this is way OT, but hope someone can give me some advice.
I just built an ATX machine, so I'll try.
I am trying to install an ATX MB in an ATX case. All
jumpers have been set
by the book. There is a switch on the power supply, and another on the
front of the case. This latter is a momentary contact type.
With the MB outside the case on a wooden surface and nothing connected
except the power supply plug and the front push button, all that I get is a
twitch from the cpu cooling fan, on only the first push, after that nothing
until it sets for a while.
Make sure that the power on/off switch physically on the power supply is on.
(Sounds simple, but possible.) If you have the ps connector plugged into the
board, have a cpu, ram, and some sort of video card plugged in, and have the
"remote ps" or something like that cable from the case plugged in, when you
push the front panel switch the beastie oughta start up. The sleep switch is
usually a separate switch, so if your case doesn't have one, don't worry. You
just won't be able to use sleep mode. AFAICT, the board always has some
power on it, and the front power switch just sends a signal to the ps to feed the
main power in. Just make sure all your jumpers are right and that you have the
proper little cable plugged into the "rem pwr" (or something) header.
Since this is the first time I have tangled with an
ATX I have no spare
parts to substitute, so any help on how this power supply is supposed to
operate would be much appreciated.
Regards
Charlie Fox
Hope that helps.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware
1:16 p.m.
The two times I've had that symptom on a customers machine, once was a
bad processor, once was a bad motherboard.
Paul Braun wrote:
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I realize this is way OT, but hope someone can give me some advice.
I just built an ATX machine, so I'll try.
I am trying to install an ATX MB in an ATX
case. All jumpers have been set
by the book. There is a switch on the power supply, and another on the
front of the case. This latter is a momentary contact type.
With the MB outside the case on a wooden surface and nothing connected
except the power supply plug and the front push button, all that I get is a
twitch from the cpu cooling fan, on only the first push, after that nothing
until it sets for a while.
Make sure that the power on/off switch physically on the power supply is on.
(Sounds simple, but possible.) If you have the ps connector plugged into the
board, have a cpu, ram, and some sort of video card plugged in, and have the
"remote ps" or something like that cable from the case plugged in, when you
push the front panel switch the beastie oughta start up. The sleep switch is
usually a separate switch, so if your case doesn't have one, don't worry. You
just won't be able to use sleep mode. AFAICT, the board always has some
power on it, and the front power switch just sends a signal to the ps to feed the
main power in. Just make sure all your jumpers are right and that you have the
proper little cable plugged into the "rem pwr" (or something) header.
Since this is the first time I have tangled
with an ATX I have no spare
parts to substitute, so any help on how this power supply is supposed to
operate would be much appreciated.
Regards
Charlie Fox
Hope that helps.
Paul Braun
NerdWare -- The History of the PC and the Nerds who brought it to you.
nerdware(a)laidbak.com
www.laidbak.com/nerdware 
2:25 p.m.
Date sent: Tue, 02 Feb 1999 18:46:35 -0500
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Subject: Need some O.T. help
I realize this is way OT, but hope someone can give me some advice.
Snip!
until it sets for a while.
Since this is the first time I have tangled with an ATX I have no spare
parts to substitute, so any help on how this power supply is supposed to
operate would be much appreciated.
Regards
Charlie Fox
Hi Fox! I'm in Kingston, Ontario!
Anyway about the ATX fubar.
Minimum items to make things spin:
CPU w/ fan installed, please double check it's all the way in by
very firm with some rocking to seat CPU in. DIMMs installed
correctly and all the way in. Clock rate set right, multipler is out of
picture of your worries because intel is currently procducing
multipler locked for PII and both Celerons.
And normally open soft-switch power plugged in right pins on
motherboard, ATX is plugged and switched on if it has cutoff switch
on it. All it needs is a push on the soft-switch to become alive.
Push it again or push in and hold to get it turned off if it has this
feature.
AGP video cards and CPU have to be all the way in properly
because of double layer of contacts rather like EISA of its heyday.
I'm using Asus P2B, PII 350, 64MB, G200 8MB SGRAM AGP
OEM ver. Very stable as rock and powerful.
What's yours stuff consists of?
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