please help me. My new computer wouldn't start.

Most of the problems I've had with computers have been PSU related and to be honest, I've not heard good things about the Rosewill PSU's. It could very well be your motherboard, but I suspect that if you take out some of your components(i.e. CDROM, RAM, etc) then it will run fine. This happens when your power supply can't carry the load of supplying power to all its components. It will just give out on you if there are too many things to supply power to. Try it out and see what happens. I put my money on a bad PSU.
 
recordingpro said:
Most of the problems I've had with computers have been PSU related and to be honest, I've not heard good things about the Rosewill PSU's. It could very well be your motherboard, but I suspect that if you take out some of your components(i.e. CDROM, RAM, etc) then it will run fine. This happens when your power supply can't carry the load of supplying power to all its components. It will just give out on you if there are too many things to supply power to. Try it out and see what happens. I put my money on a bad PSU.
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Thanks for your reply. I double checked and it is a coolmax psu 700w, not rosewill. I bought rosewill fan! I think the PSU is working fine! It is what it should be doing as a 700W psu.
 
ok. great. I got my system to power up and I am able to go to bios. But When I put windows xp cd in, it says boot failure. Help again!
 
Since the fan works fine, it means that the power is there. Do you hear a 'beep' ? (single, soft, short sound) that indicates the power wakes up the motherboard. Another possibility is that there is a problem with motherboard component(s) as I experienced not long time ago. I couldn't hear the initial beep then I got panic because it seemed like a sign that I had to replace my motherboard. Then Mr. Sherlock Holmes telling me to check on-board things then I knew that there was an error with on-board VGA. After I applied AGP VGA, my computer works well, I am on it NOW ;)
 
He's already got it to boot...

I have that error when I knock my HDD cable out, check everythig is fully seated and go to the boot menu and select the CD-ROM or whatever it says. The boot menu can be accessed usually by pressing F12 at the POST screen.
 
Oops sorry, I wrote my reply above just after the first page *blushed*

Well, maybe he didn't change the booting sequence yet? The first must be from CD ROM. If he already did that, maybe the CD-ROM is damaged/dirty thus cannot read the CD or the CD is broken?
 
Doesn't have to be the CD-ROM first, almost all recent computers have the option to over-ride the BIOS defaults my manually slecting a boot device in the boot menu. For example if I press F12 on boot I can boot off the CD-ROM even though the HDD is before it in the boot sequence.
 
Well, my suggestion was because my computer is old and stupid. Sorry again. I think I have to stop my craps by now :p
 
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