Re: Broken PC

The disk drives (2 Western digital 80 gb IDE) do not spin up.
Everything appears to be attached correctly - have had a mate look over
the connections and he concurrs that all is connected as it should be.
I have borrowed an ATX power supply and tried that. No change. It was
suggested that I remove everything from the Mother Board, except
memory, cpu and screen card. No change. Even tried replacing the ribbon
cable on the hard drives - no change. In desperation tried connecting
the hard drives to the secondary IDE connector - nothing. I get no
beeps, no messages - just nothing, apart from power up light, light on
USB mouse, and CPU fan spinning

I am beginning to think that the Motherboard and chip that I have
bought are dud.

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