PC dead.. Any ideas?

nintenjo

nintenjo

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ok so up till last week my pic has been working flawlessly. Then last week we had an electrician round to fix a faulty electric heater.. As part of the process he had to check the trip and I forget my PC was on sleep not turned off..

When I booted my pic a few days later my motherboard wouldn't post past a message saying Checking DRAM... Then restart. I reset my CMOS and tested my RAM with Memtest and it all passed. So thinking I was in the clear used my PC as normal..

My PC was due a lot of windows updates but after update 78 of 80 my PC did a hard reset and rebooted. Obviously it tried again next time I shutdown and failed again.. Finally intried a restore point, but now.. My PC won't turn on, no CMOS a power light, just nothing. Anyone got any ideas?
 
try to test psu on another pc.
i take it you have removed the cmos battery and tried again?
try booting with windows cd or usb to see if you get the option to repair or even able to get to BIOS
 
I suspect the PSU has died as well.. Which is annoying as it was rather expensive when I bought it back in 2011. :( I'll try testing it in my other PC.
 
Is it completely dead? Like the power switch is turned off at the wall?

Try a different power supply, different cable, even check the socket is working on the wall!
 
Socket is working fine.. I'll check cable first thing (hoping it might have fused but seems unlikely with a 5a fuse in the plug) otherwise the PSU has gone but then I fear the mobo might have been taken out with it.
 
Ok so I got a new PSU a and it all appears back in action. Does anyone know of a way to be my older and fair superior PSU repaired?
 
This might seem a bit excessive but I purchased a PSU tester for a fiver years ago when I first dabbled with watercooling as its better to use it when testing the loop over the paperclip method. I've since kept it and its been invaluable in cases like this when something has gone amiss with my PC and it takes less than a minute to figure out if my PSU went poof and can quickly remove it from the equation as it also tests the 5v, 12v etc.
 
Nice one, I might try and get one. Good news is my old PSU actually had a 6 year warranty, so it's going to be replaced.
 
Wow 6 years, i bet your glad you chose that one now. I never really look at warranties because its normally fault when something gets broken in my PC :)
 
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