PC Turned Off And Won't Turn On, Please Help!

Moeks said:
Try OcUK :) ...just a thought.

I sympathise with your situation, it can be really difficult dealing with stuff like this if you don't have more than one computer and spare parts you can change in and out to properly diagnose what is going on.

What I would say though, is that Gigabyte are much, much, much easier and quicker to deal with in the UK, as they actually have UK based customer support and they will process RMA's in this country too. They are, to my knowledge the only motherboard manufacturer that do. If you are having trouble choosing between the usual suspects ...and lets face it, they are all much of a muchness now, I think for a lot of people it comes down to either aesthetics or what they are used to ...however consider where the customer services department is based, do they have UK or at least European based support etc. This to me, is a big feather in Gigabyte's cap.
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Thanks for the tip with Gigabyte, any recommendations for a specific board? I have an i5 2500k, and 16GB DDR3 1600Mhz Corsair Vengeance RAM, and 2x MSI Geforce GTX 470s.

As to the comment on OCUK, let's just say I'm not keen on using them again, and leave it at that.
 
I've managed to get my hands on an old Corsair HX 520w. I would like to maybe try putting that in my PC and see if it works (I think I'd have to take out one of the graphics cards though, what do you think?).

The problem is, what if it was the motherboard causing the problem? I could end up frying my CPU, RAM, or other stuff.
 
Sure, this is the board of the moment right now for Gigabyte in the reasonably priced bracket, I just bought one myself actually, I've set it up and had a little tinker but not had a chance to really get into it tonight, suffice to say though, it is very nice, well featured, fast and stable as ever, I haven't tried overclocking yet (I will do tomorrow) but plenty of people have and it seems to be very good at it. My last 3 boards have all been Gigabyte and I have been very pleased with all of them. I have also used various Gigabyte's in most of the builds I've done for other people over the last 5 years or so, all of those are still 100% aswell.

If you want cheaper and a little more no frills, basic board, there is this one.

Mechanicus said:
I've managed to get my hands on an old Corsair HX 520w. I would like to maybe try putting that in my PC and see if it works (I think I'd have to take out one of the graphics cards though, what do you think?).

The problem is, what if it was the motherboard causing the problem? I could end up frying my CPU, RAM, or other stuff.
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I would give it a try and see what happens, you aren't likely to fry everything, if it is the board it will probably just crash/reboot again. I really think it is the psu though.
 
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Ok, thanks again for the tips :)
I've plugged the old 520w PSU into my PC, and took out one of the graphics cards (I would have had to anyway, there are only enough PCI-E plugs on the PSU for one graphics card). It booted up first time, and is now idling fine.

I'll keep using it all day, and see if it stays stable - the fault seemed to happen at random on the other PSU, so just because it booted with this one is no guarantee it's going to stay fine.
 
Well, I thought I would do a quick update.
I am running my computer with one graphics card (the repaired one) and the 520w PSU from my old computer. It's been running every day, all day, sometimes overnight (not intentionally, I fell asleep listening to music!). Not one shut down.

Just waiting for **** to test the PSU now.
 
Had the P8P67 Deluxe and that crapped out on me too, The two 4 pin CPU sockets were shorting the board out -.-, As much as Asus have problems, it mostly comes down to the P67 boards which aren't the most reliable at all.

I have given Asus another shot with the Z77 Pro, Hopefully it will survive! who knows, If it doesn't then all caps rage will be an understatement :p
 
Well, it's been 30 day s since I sent the PSU off to A ria, and no word from them, so I thought I would post o n their forums. They informed me that it has only been 20 working days, and they cannot offer a refund because I have owned the PSU fo r more than a year. I have as ked them if the replacement will be the same make and model, and if it is I won't ha ve a choice but to go with that :/
 
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