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Computer won't boot, fans spin for a sec

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Limp Gawd
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I have a computer that was working fine yesterday and when trying to power it up today it wont even boot. Nothing happens except the fans spin for a sec then shut down.

Now... since this just happened out of the blue with no warning I am kind of confused about what is the problem...

Any diagnosis?
 
It's hard to believe its my Enermax 350W PSU I just bought the darn thing 4 months ago :( and I have another PSU, same model that has been working flawlessly in my other PC.... ::sigh::
 
start pulling cards and see if you can get it to work... try 1 stick of memory at a time if you have 2...

if it still won't work.. put the mobo on a table... give in a cpu/hsf... memory, and video... and a psu of course... see if it work..

actualyl clear the cmos first... then try that stuff...
 
powersupply is toast. I had this same situation happen to me about four months ago, turned on for a second, fans spin for a about 2 seconds and dies. I checked the voltage on the back of the powersupply. So I decided it was the board and the powersupply, so I shelled out money for both, popped them both of the new ones into the case and they worked fine.
I so happened to also upgrade the processor also, so I had a spare to play with.
So I had this board that I thought was toast, a month later I tried a different powersupply, used the spare processor, and took a ddr memory stick from a computer of mine. Amazingly, the motherboard was fine, so I pinned it down to the powersupply.

This is something I have learned many times as my other pc's went down for the same problem. If you were to take a powersupply tester to it, it would check out fine, but in reality it was dead. One of the compasitors had gone out in the powersupply. So let you know it could be the powersupply.
 
I had the same problem with an MSI 845PE Max2 w/P4 2.4b and it turned out to be the mainboard. Got the board back from RMA yesterday and it's almost as dead as the one I sent them. The "new" one won't initialize the processor. I checked the processor, RAM and VC on my sig rig and they all work great.
 
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