Dead motherboard or psu?

khevolution

khevolution

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I'm hoping somebody can help me diagnose what gone wrong in my pc, I turned the computer on this morning like I always do an the computer seemed fine, checked my emails, did a bit of Web surfing then went to go and pick my son up from school when I returned I found the computer in hibernation mode, but it wouldn't boot up, so I turned the computer off and tried to restart but I got nothing, no lights, no beeps, absolutely no signs of life what so ever.



So now panic sets in, and I start to take it apart in hope of a lose connection to solve the problem, but still nothing. I remember being told how to test if the psu worked using a paperclip which I tried and the fan on the power supply started to work, so now I'm thinking it could be the motherboard.

Anything else I can check to see what gone wrong, I'm hoping it's not the motherboard as this is to would be the second time a gigabyte motherboard would have died on me.

Motherboard is a gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5
PSU is a OCZ ZT 750w
 
AlecR said:
Perhaps the PSU is faulty, which has caused the MB to die?

That's happened to me before.

Nay be worth changing out the PSU and the MB to make sure.
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I'm hoping it's not that, as money is rather tight so replacing both is not an option if I can avoid it.

My gut instinct also says it could be motherboard, so will be sending gigabyte a email soon and hope for the best, but if anybody can think of something I could be missing then let me know

@wazza300 unfortunately everybody I know only has laptops or ancient pre built Dell units

Thanks
 
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Should be a 3 year warranty on the board. If it does turn out to be the part at fault, you could find that out by posting in the customer service section :)
 
Order a new PSU, if that solves it then great, if not send the PSU back or keep it for your new main board.

You are better off trying a new PSU first, rather than trying a new main board with an unknown PSU.

(using another known working PSU is the best bet, but if you do not have access to one then new is your best bet of it being okay)
 
I'm hoping to hopefully get a warrenty replacement on either parts as I've owned the psu about 18 months and the motherboard about 12 and money is rather tight.
 
Threepwood said:
Order a new PSU, if that solves it then great, if not send the PSU back or keep it for your new main board.

You are better off trying a new PSU first, rather than trying a new main board with an unknown PSU.

(using another known working PSU is the best bet, but if you do not have access to one then new is your best bet of it being okay)
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That was my idea :p. But yes, this is a good idea.

It's not illegal either, the DSRs will cover you there, so don't feel bad.
 
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