Help Help Please!!!

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colinthedrummer

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Hi,

Yesterday evening, after booting up my computer and opening a track on cubase, I went out for a smoke and came back in to find the screen blank, computer silent and the power light flashing green on the front of the case.

After opening up the case and having a look (and a sniff for burning...) nothing seems obviously wrong to myself, who doesn't know much about this sorta thing. The psu is around 8 months old, an antec 380w, which i got to replace my first psu, which died after only 4 months because it was a piece of **** as i was told. The whole system is around 15 months old and has seen very little use. Theres a msi neo2 motherboard, 120gig sata and 80gig ide hard drives, terratec dmx sound card and not much more. Surely the psu could handle all this, I thought....

Is this a psu problem??? Or a motherboard issue??? I left it overnight and still today when I turn it on, nothing happens except that poxy green flashing light. No beeps or fans....

Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks
 
it sounds like the PSU, but a flashing front light is weird...normaily they just sit on or off...weird
 
That could be a sign that the PSU can not cope with the ammount of power that is needed.

Try removing the sound card, or take the power and cables out of the HD (not the one with the Windows boot)

See how that goes
 
That could be a sign that the PSU can not cope with the ammount of power that is needed.

Try removing the sound card, or take the power and cables out of the HD (not the one with the Windows boot)


See how that goes
 
Thanks for the suggestions,

I tried unplugging a few things but it didn't help.

Then i tried shorting the psu and the fans started spinning. Does this mean the psu is okay and its a mobo issue. How do I check this. Nobody seems to be able to explain the flashing green light thing, not even on the msi page!!! I'm totally at a loss here....
 
yeah now it sounds like a mobo issue. make sure cable is seated correctly and is your mobo under warranty?
 
Yea it sounds like that is the problem.

Look at newegg.com for a psu tester it is a female 20+4 pin adaptor that allows you to test the psu without it being connected to the mother bord.

The green light could mean that the CPU is overheating, has the computer been getting slow the last week or so?
 
No, Computer hasn't been getting slow, this was totally out of the blue!!! One minute it was completely fine, next minute nothin'!!!

I'm just checking on warranty now. I hear MSI aren't the easiest people to deal with...

Thanks guys for all your help
 
Have you got a spare PSU or a friend with a simalar PSU to you?

I am going back on what I said now, it might be the PSU but there is no possiable way that I can think of that you could test it except above.
 
make sure the case speaker is plugged in, and make sure its not trying to beep at you. if it is then reseat the ram and reseat all other parts plugged into the motherboard... finishing with the cpu. just take all the parts out and put it back together. this has happened to me before, i'll bet its just a loose part or something... maybe a piece of dust got in the dimm slot or something like that.
 
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