well, having an oh crap moment with my wife's pc. She was gone for 3 days this week, and her rig was working fine when she left. While she was gone her rig sat untouched and off. when she came back, she sat down, hit the power button, power led came on, fans spun up......then all shut down after about 3 seconds. My first thought was that her 4-year-old coolmax psu was messing up, so today I went up to Fry's and got a thermaltake TR2 500w........same result. after a couple attempts, now the power button does nothing, no fans spinning up, no power led. The green light on the mobo indicating that it is getting power is on but that's it.
Since posting this I have tried a different, known good set of RAM and tried switching from the graphics card to integrated graphics. all with the same end result.
Have you looked at the BIOS to see if anything is amiss? You could just do a BIOS reset..Something as simple as a dead (or low) BIOS battery will cause those symptoms. Check the date in the BIOS, if the battery is bad the date/time will be wrong. Check all the other settings.
Next drill would be unplug and re-plug every connection and unseat and re-seat every peripheral.
After that it's remove everything and set it up on a table on a sheet of cardboard. and Install the minimum components (ie, 1 memory stick, one drive, etc.) and see if that works.
Ok lets solve this for you.
You say you have green light on the motherboard?
Disconnect everything from the motherboard except the cpu and 1 stick of ram and try?
Check the 4pin or 8 pin cable that connects to the cpu is it seated properly?
And lastly there could be a fault with the power switch on the case try to turn it on directly from the motherboard. Check google to see how using a flat headed screw driver.
Have you looked at the BIOS to see if anything is amiss? You could just do a BIOS reset..Something as simple as a dead (or low) BIOS battery will cause those symptoms. Check the date in the BIOS, if the battery is bad the date/time will be wrong. Check all the other settings.
Next drill would be unplug and re-plug every connection and unseat and re-seat every peripheral.
After that it's remove everything and set it up on a table on a sheet of cardboard. and Install the minimum components (ie, 1 memory stick, one drive, etc.) and see if that works.
unfortunately, can't even get to the BIOS. It shuts off before I get that far.
As far as removing everything and setting up on a table, slowly working toward that, just being a little lazy, lol.
I will check that link, thanks.
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Originally Posted by amin12345
Ok lets solve this for you.
You say you have green light on the motherboard?
Disconnect everything from the motherboard except the cpu and 1 stick of ram and try?
Check the 4pin or 8 pin cable that connects to the cpu is it seated properly?
And lastly there could be a fault with the power switch on the case try to turn it on directly from the motherboard. Check google to see how using a flat headed screw driver.
All connectors are properly seated on the motherboard. Tried a power switch from another case that I have been using to post-test new builds, same result.
Although there is a possibility that it (could) be dead you can't jump to conclusions and presume that it is.
Next thing i would try is using the PSU from your own rig? see if that powers it up.
I would check if possible a different Main board with the same parts. That should tell you whether or not it's the mainboard. If it were the storage drive the system should still power up but show that your OS cannot be found.
Although there is a possibility that it (could) be dead you can't jump to conclusions and presume that it is.
Next thing i would try is using the PSU from your own rig? see if that powers it up.
I purchased a brand new power supply and put in it with the same result
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Originally Posted by Ceadderman
I would check if possible a different Main board with the same parts. That should tell you whether or not it's the mainboard. If it were the storage drive the system should still power up but show that your OS cannot be found.
Glad to hear that. I always hate when it's my Motherboard that's the problem. Means I gotta pull everything out and rebuild when I get it's replacent. Great practice but a royal PitA.
~Ceadder
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