I have the following system:
Athlon 64 3800+
K8T NEO2
768MB PC3200 RAM
Cheap PSU (!)
Basically turned my PC on this morning and it powered up and then about 5 seconds later powered down like the power slowly died as if the capicitors were discharging. (As lights etc slowly dimmed).
So I guessed the PSU had blown as I no longer had any power to the PC; pressing the power button resulted in nothing.
I tried another PSU and had exactly the same thing happen!
I've now ordered a decent Akasa PSU and some new Corsair RAM.. but what method of troubleshooting should I use.. as I don't want to plug the new PSU in and have it die.. I'm thinking possibly faulty RAM? ..I'm hoping its not the motherboard! Is there much I can test really, bearing in mind I don't have a second motherboard for that processor.
..any ideas for testing? I mean the new PSU is coming tomorrow.. but before I plug in any of the new equipment it would be good to test a few of the components but which ones could cause a PSU problem.. and was it just because the two PSU's tried were cheap/unbranded?
Athlon 64 3800+
K8T NEO2
768MB PC3200 RAM
Cheap PSU (!)
Basically turned my PC on this morning and it powered up and then about 5 seconds later powered down like the power slowly died as if the capicitors were discharging. (As lights etc slowly dimmed).
So I guessed the PSU had blown as I no longer had any power to the PC; pressing the power button resulted in nothing.
I tried another PSU and had exactly the same thing happen!
I've now ordered a decent Akasa PSU and some new Corsair RAM.. but what method of troubleshooting should I use.. as I don't want to plug the new PSU in and have it die.. I'm thinking possibly faulty RAM? ..I'm hoping its not the motherboard! Is there much I can test really, bearing in mind I don't have a second motherboard for that processor.
..any ideas for testing? I mean the new PSU is coming tomorrow.. but before I plug in any of the new equipment it would be good to test a few of the components but which ones could cause a PSU problem.. and was it just because the two PSU's tried were cheap/unbranded?