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So I recently picked up an acer altos g700 server. I plugged this baby into the wall and immediately the back of the power supply is blinking green on the top most LED. I go to press the power button (or what I think is the power button the case is actually missing the front) and nothing happens. I am really just looking to part out this machine, but I wanted to test if it works first. Does the LED mean a bad psu? or am I just stupid and don't actually know how to turn the machine on. BTW on there front there are the expansion bays, the (what I would call) hot swap HDD bays and then to the right of those there is a button (but a black stick that should house a button with the front of the case on). Above that there is some sort of connector that has nothing plugged into it, it has ten pin slots and a ground wire that comes off of it. Am I missing the power button? Thank you for any help you can give :D

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17 hours ago, ghssovereign said:

So I recently picked up an acer altos g700 server. I plugged this baby into the wall and immediately the back of the power supply is blinking green on the top most LED. I go to press the power button (or what I think is the power button the case is actually missing the front) and nothing happens. I am really just looking to part out this machine, but I wanted to test if it works first. Does the LED mean a bad psu? or am I just stupid and don't actually know how to turn the machine on. BTW on there front there are the expansion bays, the (what I would call) hot swap HDD bays and then to the right of those there is a button (but a black stick that should house a button with the front of the case on). Above that there is some sort of connector that has nothing plugged into it, it has ten pin slots and a ground wire that comes off of it. Am I missing the power button? Thank you for any help you can give :D

I'm looking at images of this server online, and it looks like the power button is integrated into the front panel, which I would imagine connects to those 10 pins. It should be just like pins on a motherboard, where shorting the right two together is the same as pressing the power button.

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