K8 notsogrand

What???

If the power supply is not working, then whats powering my computer right
now..

And no, I dont have voltage meter.

"w_tom" wrote:

> On Aug 11, 1:10 pm, K8 notsogrand
> <K8notsogr...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
> > ...
> > This is what its doing when I try to restart.
> > First the monitor gose onto power save mode.
> > the harddrive spins up and starts working
> > Then I can hear the windows chime start.
> > Then I get green dots accros the screen and then the monitor shuts off.
> >
> > And it keeps doing this over and over. Until finnaly I have to turn the
> > power supply off. (This is not good for my computer)
> >
> > It started doing this before I installed the new PSU. And it still doing the
> > exect same thing.
>
> We have no reason to believe the new power supply is even working.
> We cannot know that until we have voltage numbers from purple, orange,
> red, and yellow wire from power supply to motherboard. Based upon
> what was posted, we have only speculation that the original supply was
> defective. Yes, a bad supply can make everything else work strange.
> But the problem could be due to any other part of the power supply
> 'system'.
>
> First establish that the power supply system is working by using
> minimal information from those four wires. Only then can we move on
> to other suspects. Without those numbers, we have no idea what is
> causing those problems AND may be chasing ghosts.
>
>