Dead AT power supply

[David Maynard]

I know what a slot interface is, why they were used and why they are
were phased out. However, you missed the obvious point that I wasn't
even talking about the mainboard that died.

I'm sure it was all obvious on that end but by the time it gets over here,
with what was in your head stripped off, it wasn't nearly as obvious.

The one that died was a
Slot 1 and the other that I was referring to has a socket, Socket A to
be exact. And no the PSU would not even start without the CPU. BTW the
Socket A mainboard works just fine has I'm using it right now.

Normally I'd be curious as to what might keep it from powering up, like
maybe a loose processor rattling around in an unlatched socket having some
pins making contact while others weren't, or any number of things, but
since you're apparently wedded to the notion that a motherboard can't be
powered up without one we might as well leave it at that.

 

[Ed Coolidge]

I'm sure it was all obvious on that end but by the time it gets over
here, with what was in your head stripped off, it wasn't nearly as obvious.

Sorry, I guess everyone confuses sockets with slots.

Normally I'd be curious as to what might keep it from powering up, like
maybe a loose processor rattling around in an unlatched socket having
some pins making contact while others weren't, or any number of things,
but since you're apparently wedded to the notion that a motherboard
can't be powered up without one we might as well leave it at that.

Perhaps. If it wasn't such a pain to mount the heatsink on my AMD CPU I would
check to see if it was just a shorted pin. However I'm not just that curious at
the moment.

 

[David Maynard]

Sorry, I guess everyone confuses sockets with slots.

No prob. In this case it was the comment "The busted one is a slot1, which
obviously doesn't have a socket" that caused the confusion on this end.
Sounded to me like you were trying to make some distinguishement between
how one with a socket vs one with a slot might behave, which was what
induced me to point out there shouldn't be a difference (at least from just
that).

Perhaps. If it wasn't such a pain to mount the heatsink on my AMD CPU I
would check to see if it was just a shorted pin. However I'm not just
that curious at the moment.

I wouldn't either at this stage.

The real point, regardless of what it might take to accomplish it, was that
testing the motherboard without risking the processor at the same time
was a useful debug tool.

 

[Ed Coolidge]

Well, thanks for your help. I decided to ditch the crappy, and likely dead,
mainboard and AT PSU for a cheap ATX PSU and used mainboard from a local shop.
Considering that the old PSU was only 200W I figured that even an under powered
300W could manage just fine.