Urgent - Power Supply Dead?!?

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bballer4life09

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Hi guys, this is my first post, and I hope you can help me out quickly. I was working on my computer earlier today, and all of a sudden the screen went black and my monitor went into power-save mode. When I looked down to see if my CPU was still processing things, I saw that only my green power indicator light was on. I shut down the computer and restarted, but the CPU still wouldn't "think". I really don't know what is wrong with my computer, and hopefully somebody can help me out. One of my buddies suggested that my power supply may be the issue, can somebody please help direct me further? I will be grateful for any help, especially quick help, thank you.
 
bballer4life09 said:
Hi guys, this is my first post, and I hope you can help me out quickly. I was working on my computer earlier today, and all of a sudden the screen went black and my monitor went into power-save mode. When I looked down to see if my CPU was still processing things, I saw that only my green power indicator light was on. I shut down the computer and restarted, but the CPU still wouldn't "think". I really don't know what is wrong with my computer, and hopefully somebody can help me out. One of my buddies suggested that my power supply may be the issue, can somebody please help direct me further? I will be grateful for any help, especially quick help, thank you.
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I had this problem earlier this week and to be honest its just getting worse and worse - i think it is a PSU problem, have you got a another psu you could try? if not try the power cable or even the plug socket its plugged into

I hope this helps..

Paul
 
try turning on the psu by connecting a paperclip from the black cable to the green cable on the 20pin connector, see if the psu turns on. If it doesn't...well then you know its broken.
 
When I looked down to see if my CPU was still processing things,
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that is a neat trick, you should teach that to me one day :) i think you meant you could see you hard drive hight was flashing ;)

This sound very psu related a liuliuboy saud try to jumstart it and see it the fans fire up. Pull out the biggest connector from the psu and motherboard, then just ground the green wire by connecting to any black wire, that'll send it low and turn on the psu all by its self

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The fans do turn on, the light on the mobo turns on, I have some power, but my hard drive light (thanks apj, lol) will not flash for me. So I have some power, but I guess not enough to boot? So without doing the jump-start trick the fans and my mobo light turn on
 
ok, it sound less psu related now. Fans powering on is a good sign a working psu. Do you hear any beeps when your machine turns on?? is the buzzer connected?? is this a home build?? is so what setup is it??
 
I get no beeps upon startup. I have an ASUS P4P800SE mobo, Celeron 2.6 (I think it is a 2.6, it is out of a Dell Dim. 2400) ATI Radeon 9800, single hard-drive (out of that same Dell), the PSU is also out of that Dell. I built this rig myself and it has worked just fine for about two months now. I was screwing around and found a website that gives you information on how much wattage you need on your PSU and it recommended me have a PSU with 243 watts or greater. I checked my PSU and it is rated at 200. Does this help at all? Thank you for posting guys, I really appreciate it.
 
OK, it is not a PSU problem, I just went out and bought a PSU (thank goodness for a 21 day no-hassle return policy) and that did not solve my problems. I am guessing that since this did not solve my issue, then it is mobo that is fried, or possibly the CPU, I actually have a new CPU in the mail, so I will be able to check that tomorrow most likely. If anybody can let me know what they think it will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
 
Hmmm

Have you overclocked by any chance? Try clearing the bios settings or attaching a different HDD.

JAN :D
 
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