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| Thread ID: 90246 | 2008-05-27 22:46:00 | Problem with motherboard? | aidanmaz (7180) | Press F1 |
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| 673255 | 2008-05-28 07:26:00 | Unplug everything except MB, RAM and CPU. Now power up - anything? If not suspect the board. If it does, suspect the PSU. Or a dead drive. Makes no difference how old it is. What are the specs of all this stuff anyway, inc the PSU - like how many amps on the 12v? PSU is a icute 400w, @+12v gives out 18A System Specs: P4 3.06 HT (not sure the actual processor model) 2GB DDR RAM in 2 slots 200GB Seagate HDD Liteon DVD +/-RW DL 256MB ATi Radeon 9600 All that previous worked on a lower PSU |
aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 673256 | 2008-05-28 08:22:00 | Cheap PSUs + Cheap ECS motherboard = what did you think would happen? :lol: Sorry, just had to say that - sounds like it's either the PSU or the board, but if you just got a new PSU then it's probably the board (suspicions raised when you said the CPU fan didn't start) Funny enough I saw this same thing on a chaintech board: powered on but CPU fan wouldn't spin and PC didn't start, after much fussing about I eventually pulled the BIOS chip and reprogrammed it - and it worked fine after that.... |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 673257 | 2008-05-28 10:20:00 | Cheap PSUs + Cheap ECS motherboard = what did you think would happen? :lol: Sorry, just had to say that - sounds like it's either the PSU or the board, but if you just got a new PSU then it's probably the board (suspicions raised when you said the CPU fan didn't start) Funny enough I saw this same thing on a chaintech board: powered on but CPU fan wouldn't spin and PC didn't start, after much fussing about I eventually pulled the BIOS chip and reprogrammed it - and it worked fine after that.... mmmm cheap yes.....800 bucks in total. built it with the pc course i did in 2006. Haveent really had issues. Soooo i guess its safe to say good bye to my first pc i built? |
aidanmaz (7180) | ||
| 673258 | 2008-05-28 12:06:00 | mmmm cheap yes.....800 bucks in total. built it with the pc course i did in 2006. Haveent really had issues. Soooo i guess its safe to say good bye to my first pc i built? Maybe not.. have you tried what pctek said? Unplug everything except MB, RAM and CPU. Now power up - anything? If not suspect the board. If it does, suspect the PSU. Or a dead drive. If it is the board then it should be easy to get a replacement (probably have to go to trademe) and then you should be fine - though I would still upgrade to a decent brand name PSU as well... |
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