yeah, sounds like the power supply. i mean, it doesnt matter if its trickling power in standby, if it wont power up, its dead. Dont try opening it up or discharging/grounding anything. Seriously, just toss the Powersupply.
Buying choices:
the list is probably out of date, but gives you a good idea of brands to avoid. There are a lot of good PS in the $40 range or less. My recommendations- Antec, and FSP (are the 2 brands i use at home).
Well, I guess I have to bite the bullet and get a new PSU. How does this one sound? It’s got a $30 mail in rebate and rebates are always good in my book.
One more thing id like to add. Have you removed the CPU completely? If you have, it might have caused an additional error.
Look closely at the CPU. Does the termal paste touch anything but the CPU itself? If it does touch something else (as in, its been smeared out) wipe it off and apply more of it.
This error looks very similar to a PSU problem so its worth having a look at before beginning to fix something else.
You really need to do the trouble-shooting steps I gave you in order so you can see if it’s really a pwr supply problem or not before you buy one. Like Scottind said, any of your boards or components can prevent a boot in an otherwise working PC, but you have to trial and error them in order to isolate the problem and narrow it down to one part. Taking your time and being patient is worth it.
I didn’t remove the processor at all. When I was putting this thing together, I didn’t bother using thermal paste since it is such a low end system and I wasn’t planning on doing any over clocking. All I did was buy this case and transplant everything into it. Then I threw some junk parts into the old case, got it up and running and sold it off.
I did for the most part. But if it won’t power up to do a post with the least amount of hardware installed, then why bother going through the trouble of adding the video and sound card? I had this thing at bare bones minimum.
If the system won’t start, and the pow supply fan isn’t spinning, it’s pwr supply. Replace it and see what happens. Should be fine, but there are times when you start playing wack-a-mole with parts and it sucks. G’luck. :tup:
And so now it’s time for a fresh new hell. Got the new PSU in. Started with the bare minimum. You know, PSU, CPU and RAM. What happens when I power on? The CPU spins for like, a second and then stops. WHAT THE HELL IS THAT ALL ABOUT?
I swear I’ve never had so many problems trying to get a PC going. Any ideas?
Oh? I’ve never tried to get a POST with less than what I posted above. I always thought that the RAM, PSU and CPU were what’s needed to POST. What do I do once I take everything out? I’m going to need more instruction then that.
that’s a Scythe PSU. they’re really popular in japan, sort of like Antec in the U.S. but like antec are prone to blowing up w/ power surges. (ask me about my antec 430W:arazz:)
I would recommend in order of best to worst; PC Power & Cooling, Seasonic USA, Silverstone, Corsair, OCZ, Zalman, Thermaltake, Enermax, Antec, FSP (Fortron).
Best bang buck is probably Seasonic USA.
Best cheap PSU that will do the job is either Antec or FSP (Fortron) depending on whichever has the bigger rebate at the time.
if you use your computer a lot try to make sure its at least a “80 plus” certified PSU. meaning it converts at least 80% of the electricity into usable energy. anything less usually means it’s a pretty crappy PSU (prone to dying, overheating, noise, increasing your electric bill).
that is the biggest horseshit fix I’ve seen. Sure we’ve ghetto rigged computers like this @ work but not customer computers however the desktop we tried this on only lasted a week. clearing the cmos battery on the board is as simple as replacing it with a watch battery as essentially, that’s what it is. As a tech, i can only suggest the following: 1)if the power supply is dead, stop being a cheap ass & buy yourself a new power supply or 2) dont be stupid; listening to a rookies advice on youtube. no pun intended man but come on. :shake:
I’m about to go the extreme route and put my mobo on a phone book or piece of cardboard and try to start it up that way. I can’t imagine what might be shorting it out. I’ve never come across that problem before.
Yeah, the Antec PSU that I installed today is “80 plus” certified. It does seem like something else is going on in there though. I hope I don’t have to replace the mobo. I’m just really not in the mood to do that. But I might as well be as seeing how I’m about to take it out right? :woot:
Yeah, I kind of figured that it was BS from the start. But stranger things have worked. Unless you know the inner workings of a PSU, no one really knows what goes one with them. Of course with limited knowledge, trying to work around inside of one is suicide. BTW, my new PSU came in yesterday as of this post.
So, can we all agree that this was a PSU problem do to the fact that the new one I have in makes the CPU fan spin for a second? Or could this be someting else?
There is no telling how much got fried. That’s why you have to start with nothing and work your way forward adding parts one by one until you replace everything that was destroyed.
Remove the memory and CPU and the system will give you beep codes. No beep codes means that the board is dead. Plain and simple. But you’re not going to get the beep codes unless you remove the CPU and memory. I don’t know why you won’t just do that.
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