Hi, I've only posted here a couple times but for the issues that have completely stumped me this community has pulled through.
So my brother wanted to get a prebuilt pc and build on top of it. He saw the acer aspire X1420 with pretty good specs for real cheap. When it arrived, we realized that we neglected the fact that it was miniITX.
So we put it in his old case and hooked it up to his larger power supply of 500w that he had already. Although micro ATX, it accommodated smaller boards just fine. It worked perfectly fine for a couple weeks, and then it failed to turn on. Thinking it was the power switch, we got a new one. Then i swapped out the power supply and realized that it worked again.
Still wanting to install his video card, we got another 600w psu which also worked for about a month and failed. We repeated the same process, tried a new power switch and swapped out the psu with my backup and it once again proved to be the psu failing.
He returns it to micro center, gets a new(different) one from warranty, and now it won't even start period. Then i see a pattern. The original ITX psu had a 250w standard power supply. My backup is also a 250w standard thats 7 years old.
So my point and question after all that nonsense, is that is it possible for a motherboard to have a wattage limit(google says no so far) or for motherboards to downright kill/refuse to use power supplies? Seems to only like 250s 0.o
For all of these, i have done the paperclip test and for the original 500w psu i've tested it on anothe machine to no success. This happens regardless of the video card's presence. Finding that one extremely odd issue that i can't fix bothers me, so i would much appriciate it
So my brother wanted to get a prebuilt pc and build on top of it. He saw the acer aspire X1420 with pretty good specs for real cheap. When it arrived, we realized that we neglected the fact that it was miniITX.
So we put it in his old case and hooked it up to his larger power supply of 500w that he had already. Although micro ATX, it accommodated smaller boards just fine. It worked perfectly fine for a couple weeks, and then it failed to turn on. Thinking it was the power switch, we got a new one. Then i swapped out the power supply and realized that it worked again.
Still wanting to install his video card, we got another 600w psu which also worked for about a month and failed. We repeated the same process, tried a new power switch and swapped out the psu with my backup and it once again proved to be the psu failing.
He returns it to micro center, gets a new(different) one from warranty, and now it won't even start period. Then i see a pattern. The original ITX psu had a 250w standard power supply. My backup is also a 250w standard thats 7 years old.
So my point and question after all that nonsense, is that is it possible for a motherboard to have a wattage limit(google says no so far) or for motherboards to downright kill/refuse to use power supplies? Seems to only like 250s 0.o
For all of these, i have done the paperclip test and for the original 500w psu i've tested it on anothe machine to no success. This happens regardless of the video card's presence. Finding that one extremely odd issue that i can't fix bothers me, so i would much appriciate it