Im attempting to get a PC working again for someone. It refuses to even power up unless i unplug the FDD and both CDROMS. I swapped out the
PSU for a different one in case it was knackered and couldnt fire the lot up. its odd when its all plugged togeather and you hit power, the pwr LED blips and thats it. without it all fired up as normal. Im planning to test my CDROM on it. that should show whether it is indeed a pair of knackered CDROMs or the system as a whole doesnt like CDroms. Anyone had similar problems?
system is a p3 @ 633 think its overclocked cos I am unaware of a SLOT 1 P3 that was sold with a 133mhz FSB as standard
Mobo is a decent looking gigabyte one. Ill get the model when i next take a look at the machine.
has 128mb
ram and my old matrox G400 because im generous, and it had more grunt than their old card.
both
PSU's i tried were 230watters. On was no-name one was macron
Any suggestions welcome, i find it hard to believe a that the CDROMs could really cause this kind of problem.