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I know swapping out known-good parts is the best and simplest way to narrow down the culprit. The problem is, I don't have spare parts. Everything I have at work is Dell, and last I heard, they use a non-standard power supply pin-out. So unless that has changed in the past couple of years, I'm SOL there. Can anyone confirm or deny that?
- Last night, I double and triple checked the power switch on the case. Even checked it with a meter, to be sure that the switch itself actually closed when pressed.
- I only did a visual inspection of the CPU, it looked like it was flush to the socket. I didn't want to muck around with taking it out and putting it back in. I couldn't readily see how to take the heatsink off, and didn't want to force something and risk cracking the damn thing, so I let that be for now.
- I have disconnected almost everything from the motherboeard, to be sure that some rougue component wasn't pulling down the supply. Only thing left connected is CPU, RAM, and video card. I'm thinking, I could even take RAM and video out, and at least something would happen, if all else was OK. And I'm thinking that even with a dead CPU, the fans would at least spin. Right or wrong there?
So what I'm down to is, short of swapping parts, is there anything left for me to do?
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