My Machine Dead :(

Rehan · 4 Mar 2008 at 19:40

Hi all,

When I started my PC up today it would not turn on. The Hard drive LED flashes and the fans jolt into action for a split second but then everything goes dead again. My motherboard has a LED on it which is on the whole time so I know it must be getting some power.

my brother had trouble with it the day before when it was last working (Hes not a dunce so he cant have done something to kill it) I have tried disconnecting all pheripheral hardware and resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery and setting the jumper but still nothing.

The only things I can think of is that its the power supply or the motherboard. These are my specs:

Hiper 425W Power supply
Asus A8N SLi Premium
AMD 4000+
nVidia 7950 GT
2gb RAM
3 SATA HDD
Windows Vista

firewallblocked · 4 Mar 2008 at 22:21

Have you another psu you can use to check yours isn't dying? Had this before when my system would boot then die as soon as the hard drive and graphics card needed power.

Rehan · 5 Mar 2008 at 18:52

I do but its some old dell with a P3 in it. May not be powerful enough to start up my machine because it has a 7950 GT in it. Would the only way be to buy another PSU. Also, I think the PSU is still under warranty so how long to Hiper take to get back to you?

NightSt@lk3r · 5 Mar 2008 at 18:58

Rehan said:
PSU is still under warranty so how long to Hiper take to get back to you?

Longer than it will take for the replacement to blow up as well

Rehan · 5 Mar 2008 at 19:20

lol, looks like I will have two PSU's soon and I can tell you that one of them will NOT be a Hiper. That brings me onto the next question.

Spec me a PSU. Enough for the spec listed above and maybe a bit more. I dont want to spend very much and want a relatively quite PSU. Mainly though I want one which is efficient to please the green goblin inside me.