I am pretty sure that I connected the power supply correctly.  The FIC 503+
is an AT board and I made sure that the P8 and P9 connectors were aligned
right, with the blacks wires adjacent to each other.  I don't
know...hopefully I connected them right!  The power supply fan and the CPU
fan turn on, so I think the power supply is functional.  Assuming that that
end of the problem is covered, I am left with having ruined the mboard.
Ideas, anyone?  Or do I resign myself to getting another mboard?

At 10:29 AM 06/02/00 -0600, you wrote:
>You say you replaced the Power Supply? Did you connect the power cables to
>the Main Board correctly. If I remember right, the 503+ is an AT board. The
>Power cables for this board need to have the wires connected, so as the
>black are matched up in the center of the connector. If they are not, you
>would either have no power, or ?????? But either way, your problem would
>suggest a power supply failure.
>
>Steve Wolfe........
>
>----- Original Message -----

>>
>> The motherboard is a FIC 503+ with K6-2 400 MHz, 64 MB PC100.  Everything
>> booted and worked well enough, and I was at the point of learning to
>> install NT4, reformatting and all that good stuff.  That is beside the
>> point, though.  The real problem:  I bought a new power supply (250W) from
>> CompUSA and now the computer won't even POST.  No beeps, no nothing.  I
>> guess I wiped out the BIOS in installing the new power supply.  If this is
>> so, what can I really do, aside from chucking the motherboard?
>>
>> I am more interested in learning than actually having a working computer.
>> (I can easily buy a computer or go to a repair shop)  Insights, logical
>> approaches and perspectives would be really welcome.  Thanks!
>>

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