hardware question, power button not working on system.

Tyler Littlefield compgeek13 at gmail.com
Sun Jul 2 19:29:54 EDT 2006


I'll try the paper clip thing. My family will try, but... they usually don't
well, they don't know where to plug it in at.

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gregory Nowak" <greg at romuald.net.eu.org>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Sunday, July 02, 2006 4:55 PM
Subject: Re: hardware question, power button not working on system.


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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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