First post, by boxpressed
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I have an HP Pavilion 4445 that won't power up. This one belonged to my parents, who sent it to me to fix many years ago. I couldn't figure out the problem then, and I'm stumped again now. It's been about 14 years since I was building my own PCs, so I've forgotten a lot about the process.
I was thinking that this would make a nice DOS gaming machine. It has an ASUS MEB-VM motherboard, although the multiplier is locked at 5.5 (no pins or jumpers). It comes with a 366MHz Celeron, and it has one AGP slot, two PCI slots, and one ISA slot. I'd love to get this thing back up and running with an old Banshee card I have.
My main question is whether the power supply should turn on if the only things I have connected to the motherboard are the ATX power connector and the front panel power switch/LED connector. No drives are connected, and there are no cards in the slot. I just want to power up the unit to BIOS using the onboard VGA and a PS/2 keyboard.
I couldn't get the power supply to turn on, so I tried the one from a Shuttle XPC. That one didn't power on, either.
I'm trying to figure out if the motherboard is the problem, or if I need to connect anything else before powering up. Thanks in advance for any advice!