Computer won't turn on!!!!!!

[jimmy1999]

Hi all,

I had my friend last night to fix his pc. His computer kept turning off and got to the stage where windows would load. So we tried to reinstall Windows but that crashed during installation.

So then we took his hard drive from his pc, put it in my pc and formatted it. We then put it back into his pc and it now won't turn on. We didn't touch anything else just took the hard drive out.

Any advice on what to do next would be very helpful. I'm thinking it can either be the power supply (which I very much doubt) or the motherboard (nvidia 650i ultra) but im not sure why it would suddenly stop doing anything.

Thanks

 

[jimmy1999]

There is no power visible on the board and when you pressure the on button nothing happens. I can't remember the details of the psu but it wasn't cheap. There has been no new hardware for years, it has an 8800gt graphics card 4g ram ( again would have to look for the brand).

I will try taking out all the components that aren't required as you suggested. Then would the next step be new mb if the psu is ok?

 

[jimmy1999]

Yea I tried different cables that were running my pc fine. I just can't believe we could have broken the mb just taking the hd out. I will investigate more when I get back from work.