[olug] Keyboard/Mouse Failure

[Tim Bornholtz]

I know you're kidding about borrowing your friends electricity but you 
may be on to something there.  This past weekend I was fixing my 
brother's PC and it was having extremely weird and intermittent 
problems.  I thought the motherboard was flaky so I bought another one.  
When I plugged that one in things just seemed to get worse.

It ended up that the power supply was going bad.  It seemed to have 
barely enough juice to fire up the old motherboard sometimes but the new 
motherboard must have required more power and the PS just couldn't drive 
it.  I put in a new power supply and everything works great.

So if you have a spare power supply sitting around (I yanked one out of 
a good PC for testing) then try throwing that in there to check it.


-Tim


Joe Catanzaro wrote:

> I'm at a total loss, so I'm turning to you guys for this one. I bought 
> a new motherboard to upgrade a PC I'm working on here at home. When I 
> power it up, the keyboard and mouse don't work. Swapped out input 
> devices. Still nothing. More troubleshooting. Still nothing. Took it 
> back (twice, two days apart) to the place I purchased it and their 
> service dept. was able to get both input devices working just fine 
> both times. So I'm about to drive around to my friends' houses asking 
> them if I can try the PC using their electricity. It's the only thing 
> different from the service center. Anyone have a clue what might be 
> the problem. I've been working on this for about a week and it's been 
> constant. Not maybe. Not every-once-in-a-while. But perfect at the 
> service center, null at my house.
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> Joe Catanzaro
> joecatanzaro at cox.net
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