Thanks so much Oh Smeg and TobiF, for your very helpful advice and assistance. Congrats Col on rating No #9 of 100 in helping others – you deserve that.
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The old Antec True Blue 380 watt PSU was not putting out anything on 5v and 3.3v circuitry, which explains a lot.
After fitting new 500 watt PSU,replacing the MBR and repairing XP Pro, my system is resurrected from the dead. Yes !!!
BUT….., When I re-install the 6 mth old ATI Radeon HD4770 Graphics Card, she dies again ! Take it out and she fires up again. The plot thickens.
Looks as if I now have to send Radeon Card back to ATI and see what they say.
If they do not replace it, I might have some recourse through Belkin, for their Lifetime Guarranteed Anti-Surge powerboard, if it was indeed a power surge that caused the fault ?
Doing the sums on Antec’s Website PSU Power calculator, it looks like the 380w unit was not big enough, but local Techo assured me 500w was more than enough.
The real question for me, now, is could it be the Mboard capacitors are old and drawing more power than this? Or is the ATI card u/s ?
Interestingly, Linux Forum Launchpad NO practical help in any area, and they complain us Win users are all a bunch of
no-hopers ! No small wonder so few “new converts” are being won to the “Linux Evangelists.”
Antec, after more than a week are still yet to reply to my queries on the PSU.
Tech Republic and you guys in particular really rock. Many thanks.
