New PSU caused no boot as well as old PSU!

steliosaa

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I have a HP Compaq dc7800 Convertible Minitower PC which had a 365W PSU! I have installed a new Corsair CX500 (500W PSU) and a new GTX550Ti video card on it. (A PCIex16 power cord attached to the video card and I split the EPS 8-pin, as it is splittable, and used half of it for the CPU power.)

When I powered it on the motherboard has green light, no beeps (no RAM or CPU issues), the fans start up normally, the HDD spins but there is no screen output and after 40 seconds the fans begin to spin faster and faster and remain spinning at 100% power until I have to power off the computer. The fans are controlled from the motherboard! Not the PSU!

I removed the graphics card but still the same problem. I used the other half of the EPS without the new graphics card but still nothing. I reinsert the CPU and RAM but still had the same problem. I removed the new PSU and insert the old PSU with no result! Still the same problem! Anyone help?
 
The 550ti requires a six pin connector.

Am I correct that your board only requires a four pin ATX/EPU connector near the cpu, and that you used one portion of a 2x4 connector for that and then used the other x4 portion in your 550ti?

 

steliosaa

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No! The other x4 portion is just hanging there. The CX500 PSU has an additional PCI-e 2x3 pin which I have used. The old PSU works on other machines but not on this one which worked fine in the morning! Currently, I am trying to get past this problem without the GTX card on!
 

steliosaa

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just did an out of the case system boot. Worked this time. CMOS values default values loaded, Thermal paste was dry and the CPU hot hence the fan spin faster. Used onboard graphics and now I am going to thest using GTX! Thank you all!
 

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