A little help please?

maxinflixion

maxinflixion

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Need some advice here. I installed an Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro today and now I am having startup issues.

Basically, the DRAM power LED on my motherboard is lit, so is the standby LED. Power/reset buttons won't do anything though.

System worked just fine prior to cracking her open today to drop the new cooler in.

I put the stock cooler back on and it still is the same issue...

The only thing I can think of is that there is a capacitor right next to the CPU fan plug that got ever so gently bumped (and I mean GENTLY), other than that I was super careful.

I am at a loss. Specs below...

DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra D motherboard
AMD64 x2 4800
Bfg 7800 GT OC videocard
Creative x-fi extreme music
4 x 512mb RAM
Aspire/Apevia 550w PSU

I am hoping I am just boneheadedly braindead rigth now and am missing something easy...
 
yes.

Then when I switched Coolers, I plugged that one in too.

The fact that the LED's are lit tells me the board is getting power. I am just wondering what else I could have done?

The board has onboard reset/power swicthes and those don't do anything either...
 
I would double check the connections for power leds ect, make sure everything is well connected. I seriously doubt a bumped capacitor is the problem.
 
Yeah double checked your connections. You may have disconnected something during the install.
 
Better safe than sorry. I am about to strip her down to bare bones and build back up... This way I can find the short or whatever it may be...

Thanks for the help guys.

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Didn't seem to help. I am goign to have to attack it from a different angle tomorrow. Anyone have any ideas on what to troubleshoot first?
 
Ok, upon further research, it appears my PSU may be a goner. After reading up on the diy-street forums, I have learned that DFI boards are finicky with their PSU's and if you're not using a proper power supply, you may have issues.

Well, taking this to heart, I just tried jumping the very same PSU I have been using for months, and guess what? No juice to any of the fans or LED's in the PSU. No juice to the lone fan I had plugged into the thing either...
 
maxinflixion said:
DFI Lanparty NF4 Ultra D motherboard
Aspire/Apevia 550w PSU
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maxinflixion said:
Ok, upon further research, it appears my PSU may be a goner. After reading up on the diy-street forums, I have learned that DFI boards are finicky with their PSU's and if you're not using a proper power supply, you may have issues.
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Heh, I'm surprised nobody mentioned it earlier... even surprised that I, myself, missed it. Yah, don't buy another Aspire. Here are some suggestions from the guru himself:

http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1460
http://www.jonnyguru.com/forums/showthread.php?t=103
 
*UPDATE*

Took my PSU to Micro Center who tested and confirmed the DEAD STATUS. I had been eyeing the OCZ Gamestream 650w. They were sold out, but I picked up a Corsair HX520w Modular (the price fit right into my budget and since I couldn't get the jackoff to let me log onto the forum myself, I couldn't shop too much and knew the Corsair 620w was rated solid).

EUREKA!!! It works. Not only that, it's so damn quiet that I am going to have to re-mount my hard drives so I can kill the clicking noise coming from my system (a noise I NEVER heard over my loud ass PSU fans before).

But wait, there's more. I figured for shits and giggles I'd run 3dMark06 while I walked the dog. Came in to see a 4362 at all stock settings. Not bad considering on the old PSU, I scored a 4287 AFTER letting nTune do a quick run thru on my system.

I am now a PSU Advocate. Shout it from the hilltops.
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