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Desperate Call for Help!

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jimbojonesjr

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I come home, my computer won't boot, or when it does I get a BSOD, with some sort of driver error. Now it won't even boot.

SPECs:
Epox 8RDA+ Mainboard
Barton 2500+
1Gb DDR Ram
80 Gig Maxtor 8000rpm HD
250 Watt Enermanx Powersupply

My temps have always ran somewhat high, but now are actually lower (side pannel is open).

My "Magic Health" thing is all over the place, RPM's, Voltages, and Temps are really bouncing all over the place. When it does boots however it does have "Vdd" red and below 1.5 and fluctuating. I did a google search for the perticular BSOD error and it told me I could either have bad RAM, need to fix a driver or need to flash my BIOS. I'mre. looking for anything here. I want my baby back!


I'm on a family members laptop and am currently on AIM, anything that anyone can do to help is greatly appriciated.


I just realized that the fans in my PSU are no longer spinning, this might be it... but I took out a piece of ram, and it worked, or atleast has so far.


Got a new PSU put it in this morning. Boot up the VDD is still red and under 1.5 and it is frozen searching for my IDE drives.
 
I have not, the thing is, I can't get it to boot off of anything, right now it doesnt even see any of my IDE drives. So I don't know how I can run that.
 
Dead fan(s) in power supply=partially and/or totally toasted power supply=fluctuating voltages and amperages=good chance of damaged components

250W supply seemed on the low side for the system listed...

Anyway, I'd pull everything out and test each part in another system... and then slowly rebuild the system, test powering up as parts are added back in
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pull everything but motherboard, cpu, HSF, one stick of ram, vid card and hard drive. If it still wont boot after doing the usual such as clearing the cmos, checking all bios settings, then its time to start swapping parts till you find the bad one(s).
 
probably just the pwer supply went, nothing will get damaged if you do something about it quickly enough
 
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