I recently purchased a all the components necessary to build a new computer. The pertinent parts to this question are a A7V333 motherboard, AMD Athlon XP 1.73, and an Antech Truepower 430watt power supply. I installed all the parts and tried powering it up.
Nothing happened. No fans, no startup, no post, nothing. All I got was a low volume, high pitched, dog-whistle type noise from my power supply. So I messed around with the hardware trying to get it to work. Spent two hours and got nowhere. So I disconnected everything from the ps except the mobo and turned it on one last time. After about two minutes the ps starts to give me quite a show. Fizzling sounds, flashes of light, a horrible odor, and smoke.
Figuring it was a defective ps all along, I run out to the nearby computer store for a quick fix and grab a 400watt generic. Hook it up and get once again the bad odor, smoke, and this time a momentary movement of the fan. Called the Antec tech support, they say its the mobo.
Anyone have a second opinion or know what's going on? Not once did the led's even flicker, no fan movement (except stated above), not even the POST. PLEASE HELP!
here are my components: 2 256Mb DDR, 2 Western Digital 80 gig hds, DVD-ROM,CDRW,Asus A7V333, Antec Truepower 430 ps(deceased), AMD athlon XP 2100 (1.73 gh).
Nothing happened. No fans, no startup, no post, nothing. All I got was a low volume, high pitched, dog-whistle type noise from my power supply. So I messed around with the hardware trying to get it to work. Spent two hours and got nowhere. So I disconnected everything from the ps except the mobo and turned it on one last time. After about two minutes the ps starts to give me quite a show. Fizzling sounds, flashes of light, a horrible odor, and smoke.
Figuring it was a defective ps all along, I run out to the nearby computer store for a quick fix and grab a 400watt generic. Hook it up and get once again the bad odor, smoke, and this time a momentary movement of the fan. Called the Antec tech support, they say its the mobo.
Anyone have a second opinion or know what's going on? Not once did the led's even flicker, no fan movement (except stated above), not even the POST. PLEASE HELP!
here are my components: 2 256Mb DDR, 2 Western Digital 80 gig hds, DVD-ROM,CDRW,Asus A7V333, Antec Truepower 430 ps(deceased), AMD athlon XP 2100 (1.73 gh).
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