Screwed up shuttle PC after adding harddrive and wireless card? :/

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gordon13

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Hi, I just bought a second hand shuttle pc, and it worked fine when I tested it. I the installed FreeNAS on it, and shut it down, to add a second harddrive and a wireless card. Now it doesnt want to work :/
The screen stays completely black, the harddrive light is solid, and I cant hear the harddrive start to spin as it normally does.
I tried resetting CMOS and removing replacing the ram, switched DIMM slots etc. nothing works, tried removing EVERYTHING except the motherboard and ram, and still nothing on the screen, not even the POST.

Any ideas what could be wrong?
Btw, the graphic card is integrated.
 
gordon13 said:
Hi, I just bought a second hand shuttle pc, and it worked fine when I tested it. I the installed FreeNAS on it, and shut it down, to add a second harddrive and a wireless card. Now it doesnt want to work :/
The screen stays completely black, the harddrive light is solid, and I cant hear the harddrive start to spin as it normally does.
I tried resetting CMOS and removing replacing the ram, switched DIMM slots etc. nothing works, tried removing EVERYTHING except the motherboard and ram, and still nothing on the screen, not even the POST.

Any ideas what could be wrong?
Btw, the graphic card is integrated.
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Have you tried leaving everything in, except the wireless card and other hard drive?
 
Yep. Do you think adding hardware could have burnt out the motherboard or power supply?
Seems unlikely, because theres no smell of burning or anything.
 
gordon13 said:
Yep. Do you think adding hardware could have burnt out the motherboard or power supply?
Seems unlikely, because theres no smell of burning or anything.
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It is possible. But I would doubt that. Is it an OEM (like a prebuilt Dell/Compaq/HP/ or something of the like) or is it a custom built. If it is an OEM, then the Power Supply may not be able to handle it.
 
I would guess it is OEM because there was a model number(SS51G), but since I bought it secondhand I cant be sure.
The power supply's sticker says its 200watts. But I removed the second harddrive and the wifi card, why would it still be having trouble if theres no extra hardware?
 
gordon13 said:
I would guess it is OEM because there was a model number(SS51G), but since I bought it secondhand I cant be sure.
The power supply's sticker says its 200watts. But I removed the second harddrive and the wifi card, why would it still be having trouble if theres no extra hardware?
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Yeah. Thats the power supply. I have a 240 watt in my Compaq, and I can't put in a video card. I bet that killed it. I am not sure if that would just not let it boot or what. I think it may have broken your PSU(power supply). And it may need replaced.
 
gordon13 said:
Cool. Ill get a replacement, thanks for the help!
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No Problem. Before you do spend money on one, someone else should verify that that is in fact the problem, as I do not want you to spend money because of my diagnosis and have it be incorrect.
 
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