Issue with 4 year old build.

[davegt40]

I had an issue start today that has never happened before. When i go to turn on the computer once the button is pressed all the fans spin for just a fraction of a second and then nothing happens. The green LED light is on inside the computer. I was wondering could this be the powersupply is about to die and just dosen't have enough juice in it? Or could this be something else like the CPU or MOBO. Thanks in advance for any help.

 

[apt403]

give us your complete system specs.

 

[adi_alter_ego]

I had this problem on my old Pc, i usually fixed it by removing the power cord, wait a few minutes and plug it back in.
but that`s in my opinion the sign the the PSU is about to die, as it did eventually in my old system. it just hanged untill i upgraded

 

[dean7]

Yes, with the information you posted about this, it does sound like a PSU issue. So it just freaked out once, and now it's operating normally?

 

[davegt40]

Nope its completly dead except for the green led light that is on the mobo that lights up. I just switched in an old 250w ps i had laying around but now the light comes on but the fans don't even spin and its dead.

The specs are

ASUS A7N8X Deluxe Mobo
AMD 2100xp processor
ATI 9500 Pro Graphcis
2gigs of OCZ ram
and it had a 550w true power ps.

I never had any problems with this system until this morning, although I think my gf shut it down last night by just holding down the power key and not shutting down thru windows.

 

[dean7]

That sounds like it might be more of a mobo issue. Or maybe your power button broke? Does it do anything when you press power button?

 

[davegt40]

Yeah the fans will spin for just a fraction of a second once u press it but then thats it. And after you have pressed it once you have to unplug the power cord into the ps and put it back in to get it to spin again otherwise it does absouletely nothing when you press the power button.

Is there a way to boot a computer up without pressing the powerbutton?

 

[dean7]

Hmm... that's a tough one. That sounds more mobo related to me now.

It could be a fried capacitor on your mobo (correct me if I'm wrong here, people). I would check your capacitors on mobo (inspect them visually for anything funny looking) and smell to see if you can smell anything funky (e.g. burning smell).

Other than that, I'm not sure what to do. I doubt mobo is under warranty still?

 

[mr_fnord]

Could be mobo, or the little power button board. Try reseating the power button connector, then try removing the power button connector and jumping the power pin. I don't ermember which one it is, but you can find it via google.

Also:
http://www.fonerbooks.com/power.htm

If it's not the power button board, that makes it likely that it is the mobo. To verify that, you'd start by pulling everything, leaving just mobo, CPU and RAM and trying to boot. If that works, you probably have some failed component shorting or the like. If that doesn't work, pull RAM and check for beep codes. If no memory beep codes, then it is mobo or CPU.

 

[Finny]

Go buy a good quality 500w PSU and try it, your computer will thankyou later.

 

[dean7]

1 vote for the psu having died.my dad had the exact same problem.it was the psu.

Yeah, I'm willing to go with that. I've experienced similar problems that were caused by PSU. It just seems weird that he tried swapping PSU and the problem changed but still remains.

I wonder if that other PSU is bad or perhaps cannot handle your system?

 

[dean7]

If the CPU overheated it wouldn't stop the fans from running. That's how.

 

[dean7]

Haha I'd say that's a pretty good forecast! :lol:

 

[davegt40]

Alright hopefully your all right with the powersupply because thats the easy fix. I will be going tommorrow to get a new one. Wish me luck!

 

[dean7]

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[dean7]

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[samir_nayanajaad]

if you want a quick way to test the psu without harming anything in the pc just get a volt meter and test the voltages on the psu.

to turn on the psu without it hooked up to the mobo just unplug all power to the cd drive hdd ect then unplug it from the mobo, both the 20/24 pin and the 4 pin one. then on the 20 or 24 pin connector (what ever one you have) find the green wire then short it to one of the black wires.

the psu needs to be pluged into power for this to work obviously, but with it on test your volts with the meter and to shut it off just un-short the green wire.

also one more obvious thing is if you short the green wire and the psu doesn't kick on its dead.

 

[dean7]

Holy crap... I just looked this thread up and it deleted my genius reply to that... sad.

 

[dean7]

I posted it right when THG freaked out the other day (I heard other people reporting issues so I know I'm not just crazy... haha).