i'm having several problems with my studio 540 that i just purchased in 2009.
I turned my computer off one night and the next it refused to turn on..nothing at all, no lights although the psu light was lit on the back of the computer. I called dell and my warranty had just run out!! They recommended a new motherboard and front i/o panel for some reason. I got a refurbished board and computer still wouldnt turn on. The tech that came out said its probaby the psu so i got an old psu from another computer and everything worked fine. The tech and i figured that the motherboard was good all along so i saved my old one. The fan stopped working in the psu that i have now but its stil powering my system. i just bought a corsair tx 650 modular from amazon. Get it home and it wont boot my system. The cpu fan spins, the case fan spins then stops, a solid amber light appears on the front of the computer, the monitor wont display anything.
Do i have just a bad psu and i should return it to amazon?? I know its not the board because i tested both boards with my old psu and everything works fine with it.
any advice on a better psu or should i try to buy another corsair?
Also my processor i think is running to high..i downloaded the dell support center program and it shows temps of about 60c for all 4 cores with the first core running a little hotter. i then downloaded realtemp 3.6 and i averaging about 55 just doing basic stuff like posting here. I think i may need to install some grease on my processor since when i removed the heatsink there was crud on the part of the heatsink that touches the processor and the top of the processor that shows the model number is gone. Any recommendations for the grease?
i have intel core 2 quad core q9400 processor
ati radeaon 3650 ..i think this is getting too hot too since it was real hot when i touched it and its temp is it 58c
any help would be appreciated
-Byron
any hep would be appreciated..ive been told my processor is good and i love my computer
I turned my computer off one night and the next it refused to turn on..nothing at all, no lights although the psu light was lit on the back of the computer. I called dell and my warranty had just run out!! They recommended a new motherboard and front i/o panel for some reason. I got a refurbished board and computer still wouldnt turn on. The tech that came out said its probaby the psu so i got an old psu from another computer and everything worked fine. The tech and i figured that the motherboard was good all along so i saved my old one. The fan stopped working in the psu that i have now but its stil powering my system. i just bought a corsair tx 650 modular from amazon. Get it home and it wont boot my system. The cpu fan spins, the case fan spins then stops, a solid amber light appears on the front of the computer, the monitor wont display anything.
Do i have just a bad psu and i should return it to amazon?? I know its not the board because i tested both boards with my old psu and everything works fine with it.
any advice on a better psu or should i try to buy another corsair?
Also my processor i think is running to high..i downloaded the dell support center program and it shows temps of about 60c for all 4 cores with the first core running a little hotter. i then downloaded realtemp 3.6 and i averaging about 55 just doing basic stuff like posting here. I think i may need to install some grease on my processor since when i removed the heatsink there was crud on the part of the heatsink that touches the processor and the top of the processor that shows the model number is gone. Any recommendations for the grease?
i have intel core 2 quad core q9400 processor
ati radeaon 3650 ..i think this is getting too hot too since it was real hot when i touched it and its temp is it 58c
any help would be appreciated
-Byron
any hep would be appreciated..ive been told my processor is good and i love my computer