Hardware issue

[icer]

Hi,

just got a call from a friend with an weird problem with his computer.

PC won't start.

When the PC was powered the pet walked on the powerbar and turn it off.
After that the PC wasn't starting correctly and now nothing is happenning.
he told me that the LED on the motherboard are powered on.

Wondering if the sudden shutdown made a surge on some components and that is why the PC isn't not starting.

Any advice on that?

This is an old PC and I think it would be better for him to changed it instead off finding those old parts.
Socket 478 i think.

Thank in advance for all the advice you guys can provide me.

Thank you

 

[amuffin]

Power supply? That possibly could have killed the psu, try a different one!~

 

[icer]

But if the LED on the motherboard are on doesn't that mean the PSU is working?
Or the power circuit that is powering the MB is working but the part for the CPU is simply dead.

 

[Traildriver]

Did this friend reach down to the powerbar and immediately turn the PC back on? Or did they wait a bit to let the system discharge before turning back on?

Probably did #1 and socked a power surge into the system. As suggested grab another PSU and try it. Otherwise it's probably not worth trouble shooting all those old components. Just put the old drive(s) into another system to transfer the data over.

 

[icer]

To Traildriver :

Has you said I' pretty sure he didn't let the system discharge.

Thank for all the advice, will try to grab another PSU.

Thank again for all the replies.

 

[cmi86]

Or if he has an SSD in his system a sudden power loss like that could have goofed his drive. My cats pulled the cord out of my rig while I was at work and I had to re-install my OS to get the system to boot properly again.