Hello John,

I just went through that on a system, other than they said it happened when
the power was off, they thought.  Did you take a good look at the
motherboard?  I did but didn't see the blown capacitors at first as they
were too obvious.  I was looking for burnt tracers and such.  There were
three burnt caps around the CPU.  I say burnt, actually the ends on them
were cracked.  Whatever hit them hit em hard.  The power supply was burnt
like you mentioned.

Just a simple thought.  Good Luck

David A. Abbe
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At 11:47 PM 8/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:

>Ihave a P-II,233 mhz,4.3 gig,96meg,ATI expert vid card,SB sound card,56k
>win modem, winME O/S. Unit is just over 3 years old and had ran great. Put
>PS in about 2 years ago, otherwise no problems.While cruising the net last
>night  I clicked to go to a new page and the monitor blinked and the
>computer appeared to be doing a restart. Then the monitor blinked a couple
>of times,blank screen-no video, then heard a pop and smelled a burning
>component.Have been elect tech for 40 yr and know what a burning component
>smells like. Shut it down, pulled and inspected PS. Found 2 badly burnt
>resistors, and several shorted transistors  and/or voltage regulators.
>Purchased and installed new PS after inspecting mobo for signs of damage.
>All looked okay. Fired up but no post, no beeps.HD and pwr lights stay
>lit,no momentary blinks in floppy,cdrom,cdrw etc as usually seen during
>post.. Disconnected everything except mobo, cpu,ps,1 stick of memory,no
>chg,still no beeps.Am I overlooking something? Wifes computer has dual
>socket and manual says will run this cpu. Will try that in am. Any other
>suggestions what else I might try. Thanks.
>John Dinges
>Oregon City,Or