>The FIRST RULE of troubleshooting a totally dead PC is:
>UNconnect EVERYTHING except the video card and RAM.
>Now power up it up.
>Even without disk drives, the video should come up.
>If it doesn't then you have one of six problems (or a combo)
>A. dead video card.
>B. dead motherboard.
>C. dead power supply.
>D. short circuit to motherboard from metal standoffs.
>E. power cables plugged in backwards (but you already confirmed this
>one)
>F. bad or wrong RAM (but in most cases you should still at least see the
>video copyright.)

Just want to add a dead CPU would not make it fire up
Dan

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