hardware question, power button not working on system.

[Gregory Nowak]

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Either that, or a jumper might work as well I suppose. Alex is right,
you really should get sighted assistance here, instead of
experimenting. Avoid going to computer shops. As you've already found
out, they charge a good fee for small stuff, and they've got a right
to, or if they're a bunch of idiots, they'll blame the problem on you,
or on the fact that you're running an OS which they're not familiar
with.

A family member should be able to tell you how to plug it in by
looking at the board. Just be patient, explain to them exactly what
they need to do, tell them about discharging themselves properly
before touching anything in the system, and they should be able to
help you without much of a problem, even if it seems like they're not
the right people to ask, because of their lack of knowledge. I'm
speaking from experience here in wiring a few motherboards to the
system, and setting jumpers on cards.

As for your other question, you very well may get shocked when trying
the paper clip method, however, the most it will be is 12V DC, which
you'll hardly feel, if you will at all. Most likely, it will be less
then that, I'm not exactly sure what voltage the board uses on the
system block connectors.

Greg


On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 04:43:54PM -0400, Alex Snow wrote:
> You really need sited assistance to do that.  Every motherboard is 
> different as far as the connecters go and you might fry something if 
> you plug it in wrong.  One way I found to tell what pins the power 
> switch is (I don't recommend this unless you know what you're doing) is 
> to take a paperclip or other small piece of metal and use it to 
> connect pairs of pins in the connecter until the machine powers on.

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