- Jul 20, 2012
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Hello,
my old psu finally went kerplunk. I built this pc about 4 or 5 years ago. I'm sure it's the psu because the old one still works for a little while until it heats up and craps out.
So, I went and purchased a nice new dynex unit with more wattage. However, I'm having trouble making it work with the motherboard. When I plug all of the cables in, and turn it on, everything seems to work. I get cpu fan, video card, no beeping for memory etc.. The computer does not load up, though, and I get no signal to the monitor.
There are also 2 red leds lit up on the board. one on the top that says "vr led," and one towards the back that says "cpu led." When i reinstall the old psu properly, the lights are not on and the pc works (until the unit heats up of course and shuts down)
At this point i even tried getting yet another psu just in case the new one was bad and the same lights are on.
So, it appears we are either having some compatibility issues, or power cable issues. the only difference I noticed with the cables is that the new power supplies don't have an 8 pin connector for the 8 pin slot on the board. However, there is a 4 pin connector that fits. What is annoying is that the new psu's come with built in cables whereas my old one had 6 slots in the back where you could choose what cables you wanted. If only the new ones had that, i would just swap the cables over to the new unit. I even looked for my old psu online but it is nowhere to be found.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide
my old psu finally went kerplunk. I built this pc about 4 or 5 years ago. I'm sure it's the psu because the old one still works for a little while until it heats up and craps out.
So, I went and purchased a nice new dynex unit with more wattage. However, I'm having trouble making it work with the motherboard. When I plug all of the cables in, and turn it on, everything seems to work. I get cpu fan, video card, no beeping for memory etc.. The computer does not load up, though, and I get no signal to the monitor.
There are also 2 red leds lit up on the board. one on the top that says "vr led," and one towards the back that says "cpu led." When i reinstall the old psu properly, the lights are not on and the pc works (until the unit heats up of course and shuts down)
At this point i even tried getting yet another psu just in case the new one was bad and the same lights are on.
So, it appears we are either having some compatibility issues, or power cable issues. the only difference I noticed with the cables is that the new power supplies don't have an 8 pin connector for the 8 pin slot on the board. However, there is a 4 pin connector that fits. What is annoying is that the new psu's come with built in cables whereas my old one had 6 slots in the back where you could choose what cables you wanted. If only the new ones had that, i would just swap the cables over to the new unit. I even looked for my old psu online but it is nowhere to be found.
Thanks in advance for any help that you can provide
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