Dead PSU?

spr33ness · 1 Dec 2006 at 14:47

Hey guys,
The other morning I woke up to a silent room, which isn't normal.

First thing I do is check to see if there was a power outage in the night but there wasn't.

Second thing I do is turn on my pc. Power comes on, but it doesn't POST. I check the motherboards onboard led to see what the code is, and it was 'FF'. The board was an Epox 8KDA3+ (4 months old). I checked the manual for the error code and there were 4 reasons what it could be displaying 'FF'; Faulty board, card not inserted properly, incorrect bios or bios not inserted correctly. I quickly went through all the possibilities to no avail.

I then decide to take everything out and change the motherboard to my old MSI board. Same thing happens, there's power but no POST.

I order myself a new board, a Gigabyte K8NSC along with a A64 3700+. It came this morning, installed it making sure I took my time with everything and the same thing happens. This time though, it took around 10 presses of the power button before the power came up. I've tried 3 different sticks of memory individually with just the graphics card and a hard drive plugged in and still nothing.

And that's why I'm here. I have no spare PSU (it's about the only thing I don't have spare) to try. Does this issue seem familiar to anyone? I've already been 3 days without my PC and I'm getting desperate now.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me have them.

Also, if it is the PSU can someone recommend a decent, cheap(ish - ~£50) PSU to run the following:

A64 3700+
2gb RAM
4 HDD's
1 DVD-RW
nVidia 7800GS
and the usual case fans etc.

Thanks.

manveruppd · 1 Dec 2006 at 15:01

Any beeps? Might be a chance that it's your CPU instead, that's why I'm asking. If there aren't any beeps you're probably right that it's your PSU.

spr33ness · 1 Dec 2006 at 15:04

manveruppd said:
Any beeps? Might be a chance that it's your CPU instead, that's why I'm asking. If there aren't any beeps you're probably right that it's your PSU.

No beeps, with 2 CPU's (one on the old 754 and the new one on 939).

manveruppd · 1 Dec 2006 at 15:18

You might be right then... At least, I can't think what else it could be.
I'll let someone else to spec a PSU for you since with 4 HDDs and a 7800 your system needs more juice than anything I've ever built and I wouldn't know how much you'd need. You'll probably need to spend a bit more than £50 though - what make was your old PSU by the way?

spr33ness · 1 Dec 2006 at 15:22

manveruppd said:
You might be right then... At least, I can't think what else it could be.
I'll let someone else to spec a PSU for you since with 4 HDDs and a 7800 your system needs more juice than anything I've ever built and I wouldn't know how much you'd need. You'll probably need to spend a bit more than £50 though - what make was your old PSU by the way?

The old PSU was an Antec Trupower 430w..was totally stable for over 2 years being ran 24/7. I worked out that 400w is enough to run all the components, thinking about getting the Enermax Noisetaker 485w to replace the Enermax.

Rofflay · 1 Dec 2006 at 15:34

I'm also in the same boat, just bought a new setup from here about 2 weeks ago I've got a Hiper Type-R 580W, was working fine all last night, so I turn it off go to bed and come from from college, turn it on and absolutely nothing happens, no lights and no beeps, kind of disappointing really. I guess I won't be buying another one from them... Any one any recommendations? I was thinking the Enermax Noisetaker 600W EG701AX-VE(W) SFMA ATX2.0 SLI Compliant PSU or the OCZ ModStream 520w ATX2.2 Power Supply

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GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC6400C4 800MHz
HIS ATI Radeon X1650 Pro ICEQ Turbo 512MB GDDR3