testing motherboard & cpu

[Josh Johnson]

I've found that the power light isn't a good indication of whether the
Power Supply is working or not. You can get a power supply tester from 
compUSA. But even that isn't fool proof. The only way to know for sure is 
to take a known-working PS from another computer (compatable ie. not dell 
or other proprietary) and try it out. After that the next step (as has 
already been mentioned) would be to take known-working RAM and a 
video-card (if required) and see if you can get it to POST. if that 
doesn't work then hopefully you have a known-working processor that is 
compatible with the mobo.

Good Luck!

-JoshJ
http://lotuseaters.no-ip.com

On Wed, 24 Aug 2005, Michael Phillips wrote:

> How do you test if the motherboard and cpu are working in a computer?  I know
> the computer is getting power because the power light comes on.
>
> TIA
>
> Michael
>
> Michael D. Phillips - A computer science enthusiast
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