Lara said:
Hello,
I have assembled a PC components in the case but it dose not power
on , I changed the power supply also nothing happened ... what is the
problem ?
Is the problem in the switch button cable ?
How can I sure that this cable is installed correctly?
Thanx,,
These are the elements needed to switch on the power supply.
----------------- ---------------
| Motherboard | +5VSB | |
| |<-------------| |
Push | | | ATX |
button | | PS_ON# | Power |
+---x x------| PWR |------------->| Supply |
| |(Momentary | | |
+------------| Contact) |------------->| |
| | COM | |
------------------ ---------------
1) When you turn on the power supply at the back, that causes
+5VSB to flow toward the motherboard.
2) On some motherboards, there is a green LED on the motherboard,
and it is a status indicator. If the green LED lights up, that
shows +5VSB is present. You can also check for +5VSB with a
multimeter set to the volts scale, and connected to +5VSB and COM
3) When the user presses the push button on the front of the
computer, that sends a momentary closed switch contact to
the motherboard. The push button is connected to the PANEL
header on the motherboard. The polarity of the push button
cable does not matter. What does matter, is that the push button
cable, is connected to the correct two pins on the PANEL header.
4) When the momentary contact is received by the motherboard,
it is "latched" or stored in the motherboard logic. The motherboard
sends an active low logic signal "PS_ON#" to the power supply.
The voltage value of PS_ON#, when it is trying to turn on the
ATX power supply, is close to 0 volts. When the power supply is
to be switched off, you will find the voltage value on PS_ON# is
near to +5 volts.
5) With the PS_ON# signal pulled close to ground potential (ground = COM),
the PSU starts up, and then the PSU delivers all the other voltages,
like +3.3V, +5V, +12V, -12V and so on. If you hear the fans
spinning in the computer, then you know that +12V is present
inside the computer. Measuring the other voltages with a
multimeter, can verify they are present also.
The computer speaker will beep once, if the initial part of the
Power On Self Test (POST) sequence is going well. If you get that
far, post back any other symptoms you get.
This document defines the pins on a 24 pin type ATX power supply,
so you will know where to make measurements with a multimeter on
the volts scale. See page 37.
http://www.formfactors.org/developer/specs/ATX12V_PSDG_2_2_public_br2.pdf
Paul