Hey all,
Back in March my uncle's house sadly caught fire. His Dell XPS 400 was sitting in his basement. While only the top floor burned, the basement got completely flooded with water and foam.
The computer pretty much has set from then till yesterday when he brought it over and I started seeing what I could do with it. When I plugged it in, the LED on the motherboard came on and the lights on the network port flashed on, press the power button and no one comes out to play.
I figured maybe the PS got wet and one of the outputs trashed, the only spare PS I had laying around, also from a dell, only had 20 pins. I aligned it up to the left side of the connector making sure the wire colors matched. Again, same deal, network card flashes showing it's powered on, the green led marked "aux power" comes on...but the board will not boot.
What's the likelyhood that the thing is fine I'm just missing something very simple? Anyone got suggestions or am I better off stripping the thing for parts?
Back in March my uncle's house sadly caught fire. His Dell XPS 400 was sitting in his basement. While only the top floor burned, the basement got completely flooded with water and foam.
The computer pretty much has set from then till yesterday when he brought it over and I started seeing what I could do with it. When I plugged it in, the LED on the motherboard came on and the lights on the network port flashed on, press the power button and no one comes out to play.
I figured maybe the PS got wet and one of the outputs trashed, the only spare PS I had laying around, also from a dell, only had 20 pins. I aligned it up to the left side of the connector making sure the wire colors matched. Again, same deal, network card flashes showing it's powered on, the green led marked "aux power" comes on...but the board will not boot.
What's the likelyhood that the thing is fine I'm just missing something very simple? Anyone got suggestions or am I better off stripping the thing for parts?
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