In the meantime do the usual inspections and tests. Google these.
How to inspect for bad caps?
PSU Green Wire Test.
The dead pc.
Bob
My son brought me his old XP Pro system that I built for him a few years back....he wants to now give it to his four year old to learn how to use the keyboard and mouse instead of relying on the touchscreens of their laptop and ipads.
It powers up with a green light on the mobo, and if I take the small pinned power plugs off the various fans hooked to the mobo directly and plug them back in, they spin for a few seconds and then power down again. Nothing else other than the power supply powers up......no monitor, no hdd clicking sounds, nada.
I've hooked up a new power supply and it does the same thing. I replaced the battery, too and nada.
I don't have a new CPU to toss into it and I have no interest in swapping out a totally working mobo and CPU from another computer here and have talked them into letting me just give them that other computer instead since it is up and running and has XP Pro also installed on it. I would be adding a wifi networking card to either of these depending on which one they end up with.
I'm wanting to make a decision here quickly so I can get one of them online in time to get the last updates for XP installed on it.
So.....any ideas or suggestions for the machine that won't boot? My computer building days are done so if it doesn't sound good to me, I'll be parting that one out and salvaging what I think I can and be done with it.
Thanks....I can usually count on CNET forum members and expect I will be able to again, even if it's bad. lol

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