at my wits end!!!

fruman23

fruman23

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Had my cooler master pop and smoulder last night, went and replace it with a corsair gs600, mobo seems to be getting power, but just wont start, nothing out of the ordinary that i can see, any idea what the problem could be?
 
Hi there,

Is everything connected correctly? If you can post up some photos of your system connections we'd be happy to help you check.

If everything is connected fine then you may be looking a unfortunate situation where your old PSU took out some of your other kit when it died. Have you got another system you can test your key components with (GPU, CPU/mobo, RAM)?

Also, it would be worth checking with another system whether the new PSU is running OK.
 
There's a small chance the PSU may have damaged another component when it failed but first off I would try booting with just one stick of RAM at a time to see if you can get the system going. You could also try a CMOS reset/pulling the battery for a few minutes.
 
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Unfortunately, i've no other system to test, however i'll get some photos up.
I just hope that the motherboard isn't ready for the scrapheap, took me ages to get lol
As far i can tell everything is connected correctly, you'll need to excuse the cable mess, the gs600 psu isn't exactly cable tidy friendly....
 
I would generally see when the psu takes out the mobo it generally takes out at least a hard drive too. I think ram and gpu's usually fair up the best, well thats the pattern i've noticed from these threads. Might be wrong, never had a psu go pop.

On a more helpful note:

Are the fans even starting when you turn it on? if they fan's aren't even spinning are they connected to the mobo or the psu?

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And yeah blame the psu on your cable management! Pah!
 
Nope nothings even starting up, i get my overclocking lights coming on, showing the board has power, but nothing happens at all

of course i'd blame the psu. pesky non modular pc world guff lol
 
I'd remove the CMOS battery/connection for a while and see if it works after putting that back in. If not, what you can do next is:

- Test your RAM in another computer
- Test your GFXcard in another computer
- Test your CPU in another computer

Also:
- Try each HD in another computer

Do any red lights come on? Do you hear beeps?
 
I've no other system to test, which sucks, my on the fly overclocking lights are on, the republic of gamers logo no longer flashes though, the creative x-fi lighting on my sound card no longer lights up
 
So you have no friends of family which you can ask to test a few items? :(
If after removing CMOS battery/connection and putting that back the system still doesn't work I'm afraid the motherboard is probably broken.

Maybe anyone else has an idea but I'd say it doesn't look good...

I imagine it could be a real pain if you get another motherboard and find out it's still not working because you couldn't test the other items...
 
fruman23 said:
Unfortunately, i've no other system to test, however i'll get some photos up.
I just hope that the motherboard isn't ready for the scrapheap, took me ages to get lol
As far i can tell everything is connected correctly, you'll need to excuse the cable mess, the gs600 psu isn't exactly cable tidy friendly....
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CPU power connected? (It's a separate connector to the motherboard power connector)
 
HazardO said:
CPU power connected? (It's a separate connector to the motherboard power connector)
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Yeah it was one of the first things i plugged in.

And i know, all the friends and family are using netbooks, i'm the only one with the urge to play games on my pc rather than my 360/ps3.

would there be a noticable performance increase between the q6600 and an amd phenom 2 6 core?

I've never delved into amd territory with the exception of graphics cards, not sure how well there processors fare compared intel.

seen a few bundles, cpu, mobo ram
and waiting on someone coming round to have a look, might end up replacing near enough the whole lot, which really really sucks
 
I'll need to wait and see, depending how much of my system is ready to get heaved out the window.

is there any bundles in specific that you'd recommend?
 
turns out the psu had bbq'ed my mobo.....
ah well stuck to using the laptop for everything till i can sell off all my old bits lol

cheers for the input guys, much appreciated
 
You never answerd my question if the fans were connected to the psu or the mobo. If they are connected to the psu and not spinning up your psu does not work. But I guess they were connected to your mobo, which means it is definitely broken. Thats the way to test generally.
 
Sorry bud, i thought i had replied, yeah they were connected to the mobo, gutted that it's on the scrapheap now, selling off all my old stuff to fund a new bundle from ****,

my current case is crap for keeping tidy, any suggestions on something big enough to keep tidy, but not big enough to be a little too big? if that makes sense lol

i've got an NZXT M59 case just now, and can't seem to keep the cables from sprouting everywhere.
 
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