paperclip test

If I connect the green and black wire pins from the 24 pin connector by a paper clip (I'm a newbie, watched a YouTube video), turn on the PSU and the fan is spinning continuously, does it guarantee that my PSU is not faulty?

Hi guys, Friend of mine's PC died while they were using it the other day. I had a look at it and given that no fans spun up, no lights came on, etc. I thought the power supply would be my first thing to check. Went for the classic paperclip test (though with some spare equipment wire so not...

I bought an Intel S2600JF server motherboard from eBay, and tried powering it on with a standard PC power supply. I used the paperclip trick (shorting two specific wires on the power supply), but when hooked up to the motherboard, it refused to turn on. I then tried inserting the paperclip after...

So I've tried overclocking over a million times by now and I can never get it to be stable. Yesterday I almost succeeded a 4.7 ghz, fixed v core - 1.25 oc with stress test temps of up to 80C and almost 6 hours of constant gameplay with no BSODs or crashes. Today however, I have no idea how, the...

Hi, This afternoon, i powered up my computer and i proceeded to obtain some files from my portable hard drive. I Glanced at the unit, and i noted that the blue light, which is typically illuminated, wasn't on. I then navigated to the 'My PC' in the file explorer to find that the drive wasn't...

When I start my computer it says NTLDR missing ctrl+alt+del to restart but it is not starting up how to fix it