Any suggestions, please?

[Christopher Chan]

On Friday, September 10, 2010 03:40 AM, Li Li wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 20:23 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 9 September 2010 17:57, Cybe R. Wizard<cyber_wizard at mindspring.com>  wrote:
>>>>
>>> Everyone seems to be missing two things:
>>>
>>> 1.  His monitor doesn't show /anything/
>>> 2.  There is/are no POST code beep(s)
>>>
>>> I still want to hear what the CMOS battery replacement does.
>>
>> My experience of a flat CMOS battery is that the BIOS starts up and
>> says that it is reverting to defaults and waits for input.  Not that
>> nothing happens at all.
>
> +1.  Dollars to dim sum that it's the power supply.  First thing to look
> at when no lights are flashing anywhere.  Maybe even more in Oz where
> they have 250 volt mains.  (But really neat attachment caps and power
> points!).  My experience in places like that was that PSUs died more
> often than in the lower voltage, higher amperage countries.
>

Power supplies today are all of the switching type. I'd put it to heat 
and humidity being the contributing factor rather than the voltage.