Computer won't boot - maybe power supply issue?
AlphaTrinity
North Wales, PA
Well I went to turn on my computer today, and when I pressed the button the leds came on for a split second and they immediately went off (needless to say..nothing else booted up). My first thoughts were a power supply issue so I tried unplugging for a few seconds and plugging back in, but no luck. I wanted to know what you all thought.
I know the general rule is that your computer should work fine unless something changes..and I'd say this is the exception. Although I recently added a backup harddrive (maybe two weeks ago?), my computer has been booting fine for those two weeks. I've left my computer lying on its side since then (mostly because I'm too lazy to do wire management all over again and the fact that in a little more than a month I'll be switching the components over to an Antec 900). The only thing I can think of is that I smelled a strange burnt smell last night while playing Halo with my roommate online, but I figured it was just my neighbors cooking again (they tend to cook things that smell strange). I sniffed around my computer just in case, but I couldn't smell anything.
My power supply and mobo are the oldest components in my computer..about 2 and a half years old.
PSU: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480w
Mobo: MSI K8N Neo-4 Platnium Standard - known for suspicious nb fans, but I saw that mine was running when I was sniffing around.
Thanks for any help! It's torture being unable to access my up-to-date book (it's on a sata drive and the only sata mobo I have is the one above)
I know the general rule is that your computer should work fine unless something changes..and I'd say this is the exception. Although I recently added a backup harddrive (maybe two weeks ago?), my computer has been booting fine for those two weeks. I've left my computer lying on its side since then (mostly because I'm too lazy to do wire management all over again and the fact that in a little more than a month I'll be switching the components over to an Antec 900). The only thing I can think of is that I smelled a strange burnt smell last night while playing Halo with my roommate online, but I figured it was just my neighbors cooking again (they tend to cook things that smell strange). I sniffed around my computer just in case, but I couldn't smell anything.
My power supply and mobo are the oldest components in my computer..about 2 and a half years old.
PSU: Thermaltake Silent Purepower 480w
Mobo: MSI K8N Neo-4 Platnium Standard - known for suspicious nb fans, but I saw that mine was running when I was sniffing around.
Thanks for any help! It's torture being unable to access my up-to-date book (it's on a sata drive and the only sata mobo I have is the one above)
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Then I unplugged my video card, which requires that two molex connector thing, and now my computer will turn on. I'm going to try putting in my old geforce6600 to see if that works. If it does then I'll try plugging back in the sound card/hd/optical drive to see if it boots. If all that works does that mean it could be the video card? It's a geforce 7800gt.
I put in the 6600, and it still booted, but nothing would display. I wasn't sure what was up with that. I then decided to try to make the 7800gt boot so I could see if maybe there was a display problem. I unplugged everything but the essentials, and the computer booted and it displayed. I thought that was strange. I plugged in one optical drive, my primary hard drive, and my sound card, and my computer booted fine.
So I guess everything is okay now. Maybe the video card just needed reset for some reason??