steve d. podleski wrote:
> While I was working on my pc, the system shut down as if the power failed.
> I tried to turn the system back on but nothing happened. The only sign of
> power was a green light on the motherboard. I replaced the power supply with
> a used Dell power supply that I got at a surplus store; this used power
> supply had an extra bundle of blue and while cable with a small connector
> that, I guess, needs to be connected to the motherboard but I could not find
> a compabatible socket; the old power supply had only one connector to the
> motherboard.This replacement power supply had no effect including not
> lighting the green light on the motherboard.
>

Don't connect that if if your computer is not a Pentium 2 or Pentium 3
Dell! Not the same one. Wires are very different different.

If you're lucky, you can get the correct power supply for your
computer, and the motherboard will still work.



> Also, when the computer was functional, I would get occasional warnings
> from the BIOS that the fan had 0 rpms but the after a few seconds, the fan
> rpm was back to full value; I did not see this warning before the compuer
> shut down.
>
> This system is over 5 years old with a 1.1GHz Athlon, ASUS motherboard and
> 300W power supply and 768MB Crucials (sp?) RAM.
>
> Any ideas?


Get a standard ATX PSU, and try again.