I have a Dell 435MT i7 w/ 64bit Vista, 3 years old.
About 3 weeks ago we had a power surge and my computer attached to a surge strip shut down. Pressing the power button it would not restart. I unplugged the computer and before I opened it to reseat some components I decided to plug it back in instead. It worked fine powered on for 7 days. Then I manually shut it down after a week, unplugged it and left for vacation.
I came home, plugged it back in and nothing. Green light on the p/s and orange steady light on the mobo, however I reseated the vid card and memory. Still nothing.
I found another forum which showed many others with this exact problem on the Dell 435MT, they had no firm conclusion but for the heavy majority a new P/S solved their issue (there was specualation on firmware issues with a power outtage). I purchased a new Corsair CX500, installed it, and it turned on.
Figuring I was home free, big mistake. When trying to boot Vista theres a split second blue screen with wording at the top, far to fast to view with the naked eye. It immediately shoots me to System repair. I ran the memory and disk scanning segments as well as general diagnostics tools, including confidence test and all passed.
Previous to installing the new P/S. I did reseat the cmos battery and jumper (to same position) so I wonder if this messes something up. Power seems good, cd and dvr drives open/close. mouse/keyboard function is there. No funny sounds, no beeps.
I do have a factory installed raid 1 setup on dual 600gb hd's. Again, wonder if something at play there. Video card is a 4850 512mb.
I no longer need the redundancy of the raid setup. But a clean install is the furthest thing on my mind.
Any thoughts? Thanks for any help.
About 3 weeks ago we had a power surge and my computer attached to a surge strip shut down. Pressing the power button it would not restart. I unplugged the computer and before I opened it to reseat some components I decided to plug it back in instead. It worked fine powered on for 7 days. Then I manually shut it down after a week, unplugged it and left for vacation.
I came home, plugged it back in and nothing. Green light on the p/s and orange steady light on the mobo, however I reseated the vid card and memory. Still nothing.
I found another forum which showed many others with this exact problem on the Dell 435MT, they had no firm conclusion but for the heavy majority a new P/S solved their issue (there was specualation on firmware issues with a power outtage). I purchased a new Corsair CX500, installed it, and it turned on.
Figuring I was home free, big mistake. When trying to boot Vista theres a split second blue screen with wording at the top, far to fast to view with the naked eye. It immediately shoots me to System repair. I ran the memory and disk scanning segments as well as general diagnostics tools, including confidence test and all passed.
Previous to installing the new P/S. I did reseat the cmos battery and jumper (to same position) so I wonder if this messes something up. Power seems good, cd and dvr drives open/close. mouse/keyboard function is there. No funny sounds, no beeps.
I do have a factory installed raid 1 setup on dual 600gb hd's. Again, wonder if something at play there. Video card is a 4850 512mb.
I no longer need the redundancy of the raid setup. But a clean install is the furthest thing on my mind.
Any thoughts? Thanks for any help.
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