- Feb 7, 2009
- 2
- 0
- 18,510
Hello everyone, let me start my saying that I'm not entirely computer savvy but I have a "decent" grasp of what is going on. Anyway, I was running an E8400 3.0 C2D (I don't overclock anything). I decided that I wanted to upgrade to a quad so I purchased the Q9550 2.8 C2Q.
After installing in the Q9550 (pretty sure I did everything right here, applied thermal paste and reattached the heat sink) I started the computer up. Everything was going fine until I hit the windows loading screen. As it started to load the computer shut off. I wasn't sure what caused that, so I made sure the power cord was plugged in firmly and restarted the computer. This time, the monitor never received a signal, none of the usb components (mouse/keyboard) received power (they both have lights on them so its pretty easy to tell if they are on or not) and the computer shut itself off after a few seconds.
So at this point I thought maybe the power supply is too weak. I am running a 620 watt with 3 HDs, 1x 8800GTX, 1x Q9550, 3 standard sized fans, and 2 USB devices. After looking around on google I found people using a nearly identical setup with no issues. Luckily, I had a 850 watt power supply sitting around that I was planning to use for another computer, so I pulled out the 620 watt psu and replaced it with the 850 watt psu.
After turning the computer back on, the same thing happened. Except instead of turning off after a few seconds, it stayed on seemingly doing nothing. I put the old CPU back in (the E8400) and nothing changed. I tried booting up without the ram in and no luck. I would try using onboard graphics, but I lack the proper cables (to see if the 8800 is broken). After looking around online, I am assuming that the motherboard must have been fried during the process (its 2-3 years old).
I am just not entirely sure if the motherboard is busted or if something else could be causing this. Like I said, I'm not entirely computer savvy, so I may have overlooked something extremely obvious.
Thanks in advanced for reading/helping! =)
After installing in the Q9550 (pretty sure I did everything right here, applied thermal paste and reattached the heat sink) I started the computer up. Everything was going fine until I hit the windows loading screen. As it started to load the computer shut off. I wasn't sure what caused that, so I made sure the power cord was plugged in firmly and restarted the computer. This time, the monitor never received a signal, none of the usb components (mouse/keyboard) received power (they both have lights on them so its pretty easy to tell if they are on or not) and the computer shut itself off after a few seconds.
So at this point I thought maybe the power supply is too weak. I am running a 620 watt with 3 HDs, 1x 8800GTX, 1x Q9550, 3 standard sized fans, and 2 USB devices. After looking around on google I found people using a nearly identical setup with no issues. Luckily, I had a 850 watt power supply sitting around that I was planning to use for another computer, so I pulled out the 620 watt psu and replaced it with the 850 watt psu.
After turning the computer back on, the same thing happened. Except instead of turning off after a few seconds, it stayed on seemingly doing nothing. I put the old CPU back in (the E8400) and nothing changed. I tried booting up without the ram in and no luck. I would try using onboard graphics, but I lack the proper cables (to see if the 8800 is broken). After looking around online, I am assuming that the motherboard must have been fried during the process (its 2-3 years old).
I am just not entirely sure if the motherboard is busted or if something else could be causing this. Like I said, I'm not entirely computer savvy, so I may have overlooked something extremely obvious.
Thanks in advanced for reading/helping! =)
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram