Dead PC

[rossman]

Hello

I turned on my pc this morning and it didn't boot up. The power and HD lights just flickered very quickly and my monitors didnt leave standby mode.

I turned the power off, checked all connections and tried again.

It got to the motherboard (asus) screen then shut off completely

Now it doesn't turn on at all


I am assuming this could be a dead PSU, any ideas?

[briareos_kerensky]

I heard the necronomicon has some cool guide about bringing back the dead to life, but I think it would be cheaper to get a new PSU.
Before buying a new one, open the PC and see if any power connector on the mobo, hdd or video card is burnt, if your PSU hadn't any fail-safe devices it could have fried something...it happened to a friend of mine. If there's something burnt...well, cross fingers and hope it's nothing serious.

[rossman]

I openedher up after it happened and couldnt smell anything burned but didnt have a good mooch about. The power supply says atx 12v with pfc and TOTAL POWER 360W

Any good psu reccomendations?

thanks so much for your help.

[briareos_kerensky]

Tagan, Enermax, Corsair. I own a Tagan U22 530W and it's completely silent.

[oblivion_6]

How much kit do you have in your rig m8?

350W is a bit weedy and it may have been that youve been drawing to much from it over a while and thats why its dead?

[rossman]

I have just installed a secondary 300 GB sata drive, maybe this pushed it over the edge?

I thought this fella could be a good replacement

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=462691

or do I need more power to be safe

[charlaph]

430W should be fine. I'm running a 630, 2 HDs, PCI-E graphics, DVD burner, 2 sticks DDR2 etc... all the usual gubbins and have a Seasonic S12-430W has never missed a beat.

Before rushing out and buying a new one it might be worthwhile reseating your memory, graphics card and CPU. Or just borrowing someone elses PSU if you can.

[briareos_kerensky]

or do I need more power to be safe

Configuration, please. BTW, you should be safe with the CM PSU you posted.

[rossman]

hello, thanks for you help. I have

p4 3ghz
1gb ram
1 eide HD
1 SATA HD
DVD burner
cd drive
ati radeon 9800 pro gfx card (running 2 monitors)
audigy 2 soundcard
a wireless card
a card reader plugged into usb


I think thats it...

[briareos_kerensky]

A good 350W was enough to run all that...probably a surge on the power line or a defective resistor caused the PSU death.

[oblivion_6]

i agree with briareos, i thought maybe you were running some power hungry PCI-E cards

[rossman]

Thanks for you help everyone

I went for a 430w Tagan EasyCon - TG430-U15 - 2Force Silent Modular PSU

Let's just hope it IS the PSU that's gone shocking!

ross

[oblivion_6]

fingers crossed m8

[Valken]

A similar thing happened to my PC a while back. I was running a 380W PSU and basically after 3 days of solid use my machine just stopped working and gave a cryptic 2 beeps that implied the CPU wasn't getting enough power.

Swiped a PSU from work a few days ago and the whole thing came back!

Good luck mate!

[Mofoman]

I would hazard a guess without having the machine in front of me, that the PSu is the problem.