Dead Computer - Power Supply or Motherboard?

[Guest Bill in Co.]

Is there any simple test to eliminate one of those possibilities (for a

completely dead computer - no lights, no fans, no hard disk activity,

nothing)?

 

I have read that it is possible to check the power supply by

temporarily

shorting two pins together, but I don't know which two pins, and I

don't

know if that will work without any load on the power supply. I do

have a

voltmeter, however.

 

 

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