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Hey all, ok the back ground story to begin....
a few days ago, i bought an Antec Neo HE 550w, which was replacing my Antec True Blue 480w. I decided i was going to give my brother the TrueBlue, cause he was running a generic 400w.. so i removed the old PSU, and replaced it with the TB. I turn on the Computer. 1 second then boom, it shuts off.. I smell burning too....
I thought it could have been one of the 5 fans that went.. but i tried everything with the old PSU, and they were working. I thought, thiniking the worst, that it was the HDD. I tried it, sniffed it tongue.gif and it was working. This led me to bbeleive it was the Antec PSU had shorted and gone berzerk.. I tried the green - black connector trick which turns it on without a machine, fans were spinning fine. I was curious as to why there was burning, and i thoguht it was a molex that had stuffed up...
Fast forward a few days, and my brothers PC is not useable basically..
At first the monitor keeps turning itself off. I have tried different power source outlets and vGA cables and same thing. Second, the computer started acting bad before it even got to windows, it would lock up before the boot loading screen, and BSOD galore. I managed to boot into windows, and replace system files that it had reported corrupted, and that seems to have sorted things out. But now, the PC freezes everywhere. Loading CS:S, opening a folder, it even froze in the BIOS!! i was trying to change the AGP aperture size from 64>128 (ATI 9200SE is 128mb) and disabling onboard video.
Right now i have no idea what to do. It was working enough a few days ago to back up everything important, but i want formatting to be the last resort, and if the HDD is on its way out, it wouldnt be worth it anyways... i have since tried Seagates diagnostic utilities, CD and Floppy, with both freezing at 15% and 22% respectively. I think the Motherboard is going screwy now
Anybody who has a remotely similar story happen to their PC or one they were fixing, any help will be greatly appreciated!! thanks in advance!
a few days ago, i bought an Antec Neo HE 550w, which was replacing my Antec True Blue 480w. I decided i was going to give my brother the TrueBlue, cause he was running a generic 400w.. so i removed the old PSU, and replaced it with the TB. I turn on the Computer. 1 second then boom, it shuts off.. I smell burning too....
I thought it could have been one of the 5 fans that went.. but i tried everything with the old PSU, and they were working. I thought, thiniking the worst, that it was the HDD. I tried it, sniffed it tongue.gif and it was working. This led me to bbeleive it was the Antec PSU had shorted and gone berzerk.. I tried the green - black connector trick which turns it on without a machine, fans were spinning fine. I was curious as to why there was burning, and i thoguht it was a molex that had stuffed up...
Fast forward a few days, and my brothers PC is not useable basically..
At first the monitor keeps turning itself off. I have tried different power source outlets and vGA cables and same thing. Second, the computer started acting bad before it even got to windows, it would lock up before the boot loading screen, and BSOD galore. I managed to boot into windows, and replace system files that it had reported corrupted, and that seems to have sorted things out. But now, the PC freezes everywhere. Loading CS:S, opening a folder, it even froze in the BIOS!! i was trying to change the AGP aperture size from 64>128 (ATI 9200SE is 128mb) and disabling onboard video.
Right now i have no idea what to do. It was working enough a few days ago to back up everything important, but i want formatting to be the last resort, and if the HDD is on its way out, it wouldnt be worth it anyways... i have since tried Seagates diagnostic utilities, CD and Floppy, with both freezing at 15% and 22% respectively. I think the Motherboard is going screwy now
Anybody who has a remotely similar story happen to their PC or one they were fixing, any help will be greatly appreciated!! thanks in advance!