A.C.D. (AncientToasted Dell)

[MiranoPoncho]

I recentley had a client bring me her computer when she claims that the powerstorm fried her computer as it would not boot. I've seen the rig way before and installed Winxp on it, so I know that that would not make it refuse to boot. Anyway, according to the story, she had no surge protector, and the power supply fried. She dropped it off and I opened it up. Problem:
1) The dell from hell was growing hair and some yucky black paste, which infliltrated all the intakes and the cpu heatsink and
2) ram was backwards
After I vaccumed that overgrown toaster, I unhooked everything, dispelled myself, hooked everything up again and tried to boot. Nothing. Cleared and reset CMOS, battery was reseated. Installed diffrent and working psu and hooked it all up. nothing again. The little light on the mobo inidcated the presence of power, but neither psu succeded in being able for booting to occur. I ask you, The mobo and cpu are fried? Correct? or is there something eluding me....?

 

[svi]

Are the front panel connections hooked up properly? It would be easily to accidentally jerk them at least partway out while cleaning the thing.

jooc, what do you mean by black paste and hair? Was there mold in there or something?

 

[MiranoPoncho]

Svi, the front back, molex auxilary and everything else are all in the proper places and hoked up firmly and correctley. When I said black paste and hair, I'm not sure of mold, just that it had hair, and some brownish black cohesive substence which smelled like ciggarette residue. Everything is properley connected, 2psu's and still nothing.. Geuss I should start looking at the egg for a barebones combo

 

[ShadowBlade]

to make sure its not a faulty switch, take a conductive device (ie screwdriver) and short the power switch pins
you could always put a $50 K6 system in the case and give it back to her

 

[MiranoPoncho]

The powerswitch pins as in the button on the front, no? I tried that and couldn't short anything. Tis funny you mention an athlon k6 system as i've a k366 that works fine except only problem, is the dell needs a Matx mobo and the one from the k6 is a full sized socket super 7.