First post, by thepirategamerboy12
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So, I got this Socket 7 PC last Wednesday. It's in an AT case that features an led display and turbo button. I did a basic inspection before powering it on for the first time. It has a number of cards in it, including a Triton PCI video card and an ESS AudioDrive sound card. I turned it on and the LED display showed 133, the PC speaker was making odd clicking sounds and there was nothing on the monitor. There was then a loud popping sound from the GreenLine 250W PSU. I immediately turned it off and unplugged it. Nothing on the motherboard seems to have been noticeably damaged; no blown caps or anything like that. After that, I took out the Astec 200W power supply from my NEC Ready. I assume as long as I don't do too much with it, the lower wattage should still power the computer fine, right? Well, I hooked it up outside of the case with all the drives unplugged and all the cards taken out except the Triton video card. Now pretty much nothing happens. The LED display shows nothing at all, the AT keyboard lights don't come on, no PC speaker noise, the monitor doesn't do anything, and all that happens is that the CPU and PSU fans spin. I hope the old PSU didn't completely kill the motherboard...
Any ideas of what I might be doing wrong? I think the headers are plugged in correctly and I assume not having any drives plugged in would still make the BIOS post. I'll post pictures soon, but I just don't have the time right now. Please help, thanks.