Resolved Possible Dead Motherboard

Hi all and a Happy New Year,

My next door handed me they're PC, no brand, no history, it just went dead from one day to the next.
Motherboard is a: MS - 7313 Vers. 1 with 1GB of DDR2 800MHz

Push the power button, nothing not even the little LED around the power button lights up. My first thought was PSU, PSU tester shows no fault, all voltages are OK all LED on the tester light up.

The strange part though is, when I have the PSU tester connected to the leads from the power supply the psu fan comes on and also the LED at the power button in front of the case.
Yet when I reconnect all the leads to the motherboard nothing comes on, no PSU fan and no LED light on the power button.

Can I safely assume that the Motherboard is nackered.
hawk22

 

That was my first guess. Got the same thing with an HP G71 Notebook PC. When I got to the motherboard there was a screw fused to it. Some one had it apart snapped off a screw then must have just reassembled the machine without removing the screw.

 

Thanks lj50, I don't think this would apply in this case since the lady would have no idea on how to open the computer case

 

They took it to someone else first then I got it. Sorry I should have indicated that. Either motherboard of power button board(If laptop).

 

Sorry I should have mentioned, it is a desktop, not Laptop.

hawk22

 

Hi Bill, is this the M/B:http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&docname=c02014355#N334
Or this one:http://www.scribd.com/doc/97303878/MSI-MS-7313-REV-1-0#scribd
Neil.

 

Hi Neil,
Its the second on your list REV - 1-0. First time I have encountered a problem like that, in that way.

Hi Pete,
Thanks, I did that, no joy either.

hawk22