Heya, for about 2 years I've been running a homebuilt computer that's been working pretty well for me
It's always worked fine for me (except some issues with graphics card heating which meant I had to keep it underclocked) but after moving it from home to Uni after Christmas, I'm having issues with it powering on.
When I first set it back up after I got back, I had the long beep - two short beeps of my graphics card not working, I moved it about slightly and got part of the BIOS running on the screen, but then it failed again.
After taking the card fully out and putting it back in, I could get through to the windows 7 boot options and futher, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard had any lights from the computer showing that they were connected, (tried using the keyboard both as USB and PS2, neither of them had any lights).
On top of this, the chances of the computer actually powering on when I press the power button are fairly low, the computer tends to not react while the monitor + keyboard + mouse are actually plugged into the computer and even if I remove them, it'll still not start.
However, if I unplug the graphics card entirely, the computer will start normally (goes to the beeps happily 100% of the time). I assumed that it was probably a graphics card problem (I always have bad luck with graphics cards) so I tried switching the graphics card with my housemates but it still had the exact same behaviour.
From this, I'm guessing it's either a motherboard issue or a power supply issue, but as I'm more or less wildly guessing at this point I was hoping someone with more experience of what could be going wrong could help.
Thanks in advance =]
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-P35-S3G
Graphics Card: nVidia 8800GT
Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda's
RAM: Corsair
PSU: Corsair WX550w
Graphics Card: nVidia 8800GT
Hard Drives: Seagate Barracuda's
RAM: Corsair
PSU: Corsair WX550w
It's always worked fine for me (except some issues with graphics card heating which meant I had to keep it underclocked) but after moving it from home to Uni after Christmas, I'm having issues with it powering on.
When I first set it back up after I got back, I had the long beep - two short beeps of my graphics card not working, I moved it about slightly and got part of the BIOS running on the screen, but then it failed again.
After taking the card fully out and putting it back in, I could get through to the windows 7 boot options and futher, but neither the mouse nor the keyboard had any lights from the computer showing that they were connected, (tried using the keyboard both as USB and PS2, neither of them had any lights).
On top of this, the chances of the computer actually powering on when I press the power button are fairly low, the computer tends to not react while the monitor + keyboard + mouse are actually plugged into the computer and even if I remove them, it'll still not start.
However, if I unplug the graphics card entirely, the computer will start normally (goes to the beeps happily 100% of the time). I assumed that it was probably a graphics card problem (I always have bad luck with graphics cards) so I tried switching the graphics card with my housemates but it still had the exact same behaviour.
From this, I'm guessing it's either a motherboard issue or a power supply issue, but as I'm more or less wildly guessing at this point I was hoping someone with more experience of what could be going wrong could help.
Thanks in advance =]
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