- Sep 10, 2015
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Upgrading my PC and have run into an issue. I shut off the working PC Tuesday when the new goodness from Amazon Prime showed up. Case is a few year old Antec Sonata 3 with their 500w PSU. Pulled the old mobo with CPU and RAM on it, installed the new one (Asus Z97-a mobo, 4690k CPU, GSkill RAM). Plugged everything in to the new board, got the green power light on the mobo, hit the power switch and - nothing.
Ran through several iterations of trying to get it to post - no RAM, minimal things plugged in to mobo, still nothing. At one point when I had the RAM pulled, the CPU fan would spin a couple rotations when I would hit the power, but nothing more. Finally figure I must have a bad part in the new pieces, so I pull everything out and install all the old stuff, got the LED on the mobo on and - same thing, no post.
I've been troubleshooting in my head and have it narrowed down to either the PSU or the power switch, but that's just my guess, I would love more input. I don't know if the PSU can light the motherboard LED but still not provide CPU power or what's up. My plan it to try borrow a known good PSU from a friend and try that, narrow it down to maybe the power button, but the button randomly going bad seems very unlikely. Any other thoughts? Thanks.
Ran through several iterations of trying to get it to post - no RAM, minimal things plugged in to mobo, still nothing. At one point when I had the RAM pulled, the CPU fan would spin a couple rotations when I would hit the power, but nothing more. Finally figure I must have a bad part in the new pieces, so I pull everything out and install all the old stuff, got the LED on the mobo on and - same thing, no post.
I've been troubleshooting in my head and have it narrowed down to either the PSU or the power switch, but that's just my guess, I would love more input. I don't know if the PSU can light the motherboard LED but still not provide CPU power or what's up. My plan it to try borrow a known good PSU from a friend and try that, narrow it down to maybe the power button, but the button randomly going bad seems very unlikely. Any other thoughts? Thanks.
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