PC wont power up

mattyj1085 · 16 Sep 2024 at 19:10

I was using my pc fine and rebooted to install latest updates, it's usually just left on all the time and now it won't power back on.

I've tried the paper clip trick on the PSU and that fires up still but when all reconnected and press the power button nothing happens.

No fans spin up or anything but the network light is flashing in the nic so I know the motherboard is getting power.

Any ideas what could have happened?

Do I need a new motherboard?

mattyj1085 · 16 Sep 2024 at 19:22

I've tried just joining the power button pins with a paper clip but not sure if that's right way to do it.
I'm going to see if I can find another button to test tomorrow.

mattyj1085 · 16 Sep 2024 at 19:22

It's a fairly old Asus micro board with 8gb DDR4 and intel CPU just used for web browsing mainly.

mattyj1085 · 16 Sep 2024 at 19:36

Had a GPU but already tried removing with no difference, I'm just taking the board out of the case now to see if it's shorting out somewhere.