Machine died??

SidUK · 28 Oct 2006 at 11:56

Afternoon all, strange one here that, as of yet, i'm unable to solve.

My sons machine is an AMD (forget what chip it is), A7N8X-X etc etc, he was on his machine when the daughter pressed the power switch (she's 2) and the machine went straight off, didnt power down or anything.

I've replaced the PSU, the green LED on the motherboard is lighting up but nothing at all is happening.

I've tried shorting the power switch out by connecting the wires together (i presume this would work right?) and tried using the reset switch as a power switch but nothing is working.

I've unplugged all drives etc just to see if any of them are shorting but still nada.

Anyone any thoughts?

InvaderGIR · 28 Oct 2006 at 12:52

Double check that everything is plugged in, and don't plug the reset button in, sometimes the reset buttons short themselves and stop computers from powering on, I had it on one case.

InvG

Felix Da Housecat · 28 Oct 2006 at 13:08

Have you reset the bios?

SidUK · 28 Oct 2006 at 13:32

Checked and double checked everything, reset the CMOS and still nada.

Corasik · 28 Oct 2006 at 14:32

Did you reset the bios with the jumper or pulling the battery out. Some motherboards bios gets badly corrupted when you power them down unexpectedly, and to restore them you have to disconnect the ATX power cable (as the psu capacitors can hold up the 5vsb for quite some time, remove the motherboard battery, and the use the clr cmos. To be certain wait 5 minutes, and then return everything to normal.

That normally fixes most problems of this nature. If you cant remove the battery (a few boards used soldered on batterys), then second best is to leave everything disconnected overnight, with the cmos clr jumper on clear.

Hope you get it working again.