Brian - did you ever find the issue or were you electrocuted in the process? > On Jul 20, 2015, at 8:19 AM, Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz> wrote: > > Ok so likelihood is you’ve ruled out a short… next step is you should try another PSU to eliminate that (a $15 test - you don’t need more than 300W to do a benchdesk test). > > Can you produce photos as I’ve requested now three times? I’d like to see how you have the CPU set on the socket and the general connections for power. As someone mentioned there’s a utility power connection that I’ve usually seen in proximity to the CPUs that’s 8 pins. Are you using that? > > Thanks, > Ryan > > >> On Jul 19, 2015, at 10:09 PM, Brian Wood <woodbrian77 at gmail.com <mailto:woodbrian77 at gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> Ryan Coleman writes: >> >> > Troubleshooting: strip it down the the minimum: a little RAM, the CPU, a video card (if > you need it) and nothing more. >> >> I have tried it with no ram but the same result. I read somewhere that >> you can't rule out the power converter (supply) yet either. I figured that >> since the cpu fan and led lights were working, that the power converter >> was fine, but guess that's assuming too much. I'm not sure how to try >> to narrow it down to one of those components at this time. >> >> I've been testing this outside the case on the cardboard box the whole >> time. >> >> -- >> Brian >> Ebenezer Enterprises - "There are only two races in the world -- the decent >> and the indecent." Viktor Frankl >> >> http://webEbenezer.net <http://webebenezer.net/> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20150727/568cd4d5/attachment.html>