Hey guys,
I was gaming on my about 2 year old self built pc today. It had worked without any problems until today. Suddenly I heard some rattling noise coming from the case. Since I removed the dust from the pc recently I assumed one of the wires (the wiring was pretty messy) hit one of the fans. I gave the case a light tap to see if that would fix it, but it didn't. Before I could shutdown the game and pc to take a look inside, everything suddenly went black.
Thinking one of the wires got loose, I made sure all wires were in place and intact (didn't see any effects of a wire hitting a fan). Didn't work. My pc doesn't react to anything. There is no LED light coming from the motherboard either when I turn the power on.
I tried to start the pc by 'shorting' the power switch pins, which had no effect. I also determined the PSU works perfectly fine using the paperclip test. If I connect fans, disc drives, HDD to the PSU they all work so that doesn't seem to be the problem. Trying to get a reaction with only the PSU, CPU and MoBo didn't work either. Finally I checked if resetting the cmos would do anything, but nope.
From this I conclude that my motherboard is somehow busted. Is this true? Should I get a new one? I don't have a lot of cash and my exams are coming up so I need this pc back in working condition asap and I can only affort to replace one part realisticly. Do you guys have any suggestions on what I should do?
TL;DR
PC goes black. No led on MoBo. PSU works fine. Wat do pls Halp?
Thanks already, you guys rock!
Chris
PS. If you need my specs I can look them up somewhere. (Had a file with it's exact spec on that pc
I was gaming on my about 2 year old self built pc today. It had worked without any problems until today. Suddenly I heard some rattling noise coming from the case. Since I removed the dust from the pc recently I assumed one of the wires (the wiring was pretty messy) hit one of the fans. I gave the case a light tap to see if that would fix it, but it didn't. Before I could shutdown the game and pc to take a look inside, everything suddenly went black.
Thinking one of the wires got loose, I made sure all wires were in place and intact (didn't see any effects of a wire hitting a fan). Didn't work. My pc doesn't react to anything. There is no LED light coming from the motherboard either when I turn the power on.
I tried to start the pc by 'shorting' the power switch pins, which had no effect. I also determined the PSU works perfectly fine using the paperclip test. If I connect fans, disc drives, HDD to the PSU they all work so that doesn't seem to be the problem. Trying to get a reaction with only the PSU, CPU and MoBo didn't work either. Finally I checked if resetting the cmos would do anything, but nope.
From this I conclude that my motherboard is somehow busted. Is this true? Should I get a new one? I don't have a lot of cash and my exams are coming up so I need this pc back in working condition asap and I can only affort to replace one part realisticly. Do you guys have any suggestions on what I should do?
TL;DR
PC goes black. No led on MoBo. PSU works fine. Wat do pls Halp?
Thanks already, you guys rock!
Chris
PS. If you need my specs I can look them up somewhere. (Had a file with it's exact spec on that pc
And yeah didn't tap it hard, but still didn't do any good. Luckily hdd seems to be working (checked with other pic)
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