[ale] Playing Resurrectionist

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

It's the mobo. ATX uses mobo pins to power up.

OK. Last trick: find the power switch pins on the mobo and short them
with a screw driver. That bypasses the switch. If it still won't power
up, toss the board.

2009/3/31 Charles Shapiro <hooterpincher at gmail.com>:
> So a friend of mine has a dead E-machines D2046 which I've been attempting
> to bring back to life.? It did not respond to the power switch at all. I
> easter-egged out everything but? the MB and got no change,? so I went out
> and bought a $20, 380 watt power supply at Fry's and installed that.? Alas,
> it still has no heartbeat and no breathing. So I'm trying to decide whether
> to try replacing? the CPU? ( 2 gb Celeron) first, or just grit my teeth and
> buy a whole new ATX motherboard.? Thoughts?
>
> -- CHS
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