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PSU problems

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kharan5876

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I've got an old ABIT KN-8 Socket 939 motherboard with an Athlon X2 in it.

I put it in an old 2u rackmount case and went and ordered a 2u psu from ebay for it.
It's an istar 460W psu.

Now I hook everything up, plug in the connector and the motherboard leds come on. Hit the power switch and the fans start blowing. However nothing shows up on the screen. I also have to hold the power switch to turn it off, normally during the BIOS sequence I can just hit the power button once and it'll turn off. So I'm pretty sure its the computer not booting, not just my video card not working. I tested with a separate video card and comfirmed this.

Anyway I swap out an old 350W psu that I have and it works just fine.

Naturally I assume the ebay psu I got is broken. But then I hook it up to another machine and power it on and it works. The second machine is an old dual pentium 3 motherboard.

This is really bizare and I'm not sure what to make of it. Has anyone had a similar experience and have any idea what could possibly be going on?
 
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