newbie help/computer wont turn on/where to start?

SirKenin · 09-10-2006, 10:46 PM

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Originally Posted by PC eye

put... put.... awww.... doa

I've been seeing this on a few new boards lately let alone one that's been in use for a period of time.

Good for you.

SirKenin · 09-10-2006, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobo

I am quite aware of this.

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Originally Posted by Bobo

...the motherboard uses 12v, 5v, and 3.3v. Which is exactly why I wonder where you get your information

You were quite aware of what, exactly?

Bobo · 09-10-2006, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by SirKenin

You were quite aware of what, exactly?

Wait what?

All I was saying was that all 3 voltages go into the motherboard. AFAIK, the 12v is only used for the fan connectors on the motherboard, but that still counts.

There is an edit button...

SirKenin · 09-10-2006, 10:50 PM

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Originally Posted by PC eye

put... put.... awww.... doa

I've been seeing this on a few new boards lately let alone one that's been in use for a period of time.

A mechanic that "knew that" after the car has already been diagnosed isn't much of a mechanic, now, is he?

SirKenin · 09-10-2006, 10:52 PM

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Originally Posted by Bobo

Wait what?

All I was saying was that all 3 voltages go into the motherboard. AFAIK, the 12v is only used for the fan connectors on the motherboard, but that still counts.

Whatever

Kinda like the football player that goes down on the one yard line and reaches the ball into the end zone...

Bobo · 09-10-2006, 11:05 PM

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Originally Posted by SirKenin

Whatever

Kinda like the football player that goes down on the one yard line and reaches the ball into the end zone...

That just went straight over my head...how do the two statements have anything to do with each other?

SirKenin · 09-10-2006, 11:21 PM

Don't worry about it... Back to the issue at hand.

PC eye · 09-11-2006, 12:51 AM

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Originally Posted by SirKenin

Nope. I'm almost 100% certain that it's the PSU that's the problem.

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Originally Posted by SirKenin

A mechanic that "knew that" after the car has already been diagnosed isn't much of a mechanic, now, is he?

You just seem determined to get in deeeperrrrr over your head there.

What you seem to forget was the ealier post.

"Did you hear the default single beep upon first turning the system on? When a bios chip fails on a board nothing will run unless the cpu went bad on you."

Yet you were so insistent on a bad psu?

SirKenin · 09-11-2006, 01:06 AM

Well it's not a BIOS chip like you tried telling us. That I can tell you for sure. If it was it would be giving you a beep code:

1-1-4 (Phoenix)
9 short (Ami)

etc.

Truth is, you have no clue.

I did think it was a bad rail on the PSU, yes, but I'm not sitting over top of it trying to diagnose it either. It was perfectly logical to assume a PSU.

PC eye · 09-11-2006, 01:38 AM

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Originally Posted by SirKenin

Well it's not a BIOS chip like you tried telling us. That I can tell you for sure. If it was it would be giving you a beep code:

1-1-4 (Phoenix)
9 short (Ami)

etc.

Truth is, you have no clue.

I did think it was a bad rail on the PSU, yes, but I'm not sitting over top of it trying to diagnose it either. It was perfectly logical to assume a PSU.

With fans and other things seeming to start running and then quit there would have been just enough voltage getting to the video card itself to have even a brief look at something trying to display there. But "nothing" came up on screen at all? Besides a bios chip itself there are other things that can go bad there like diodes and capacitors. Speaking of bad caps, http://www.badcaps.com/

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09-10-2006, 11:21 PM	#27 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	Don't worry about it... Back to the issue at hand.

09-11-2006, 01:06 AM	#29 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	Well it's not a BIOS chip like you tried telling us. That I can tell you for sure. If it was it would be giving you a beep code: 1-1-4 (Phoenix) 9 short (Ami) etc. Truth is, you have no clue. I did think it was a bad rail on the PSU, yes, but I'm not sitting over top of it trying to diagnose it either. It was perfectly logical to assume a PSU.