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Old 01-19-2010, 03:24 PM  
Jarmusch
 
 
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Originally Posted by rowan View Post
I'd disconnect everything and see if the PSU fan spins when green is connected to black. No point risking your peripherals if it's a dodgy PSU.

The sniff test may also assist in diagnosis.
Well the PSU may only fail to start when it has some load, but start fine without any load.

That's why I told him to test it with some hardware connected to it to be sure.

Plus some PSU's don't start at all without any load
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