Recent content by Anaxander

oh its one proprietary mofo...................its got one of those silly riser cards for the ISA/PCI slots. thats what is making this so difficult. if i got an AT or ATX case for the mobo, i'd have to do some serious jimmy-rigging to get it to work. the riser card comes up off the mobo at a 90...

how do i go about checking "the fuse"? is it inside the PS? i took the PS out and have thought about cracking it open...........but have yet to. now, for all of you who dont think that this is a proprietary PS, let me describe it to you........... its a rectangle-shaped box measuring...

because its over 2 years old and doubtful HP would give a crap. and it would probably cost me an arm and a leg. and the last thing i want to do is deal with HP customer support for hours on end.

like i said, it was fine one day and then shot the next. i did absolutely nothing to warrant an explanation. no fans spin. NOTHING happens when you hit the power button. i have taken the cover off and pulled the P/S out and unplugged it from the HD and the other drives. just left it connected to...

is there any place to take a processor chip and test it for "friedness"? my girlfriends mother's computer was apparently "struck by lightning" as they say and she gave me the whole damn machine..............if its just a bad mobo, i want to get a new one, but, if its a bad...

my old machine just recently went kaput. it simply wont turn on. i'd imagine this is a power supply failure, because the machine has worked basically flawlessly (as far as power supplying goes) for over 2 years. but, in case there might be some other oddity i'm overlooking, i thought i'd post...