Ok, my computer was sitting in my room, it's been running fine for a few months now. A couple hours ago, I tap the front of the case with my foot, and everything just shuts off. I tried turning it back on and nothing happened. So I turned the power supply off and back on and tried again. This time, it tried to start and then immediately shutoff again. The power supply has a blue light in it and that goes out immediately as well. I can see 2 yellow lights on the motherboard are lit when the power supply is turned on. Do you think my power supply blew or is it something else? Any way I can test?
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Please Help - Computer Won't Turn On
- Thread starter Szap
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Footer4321
Gawd
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well first check to see if everything is connected inside the case... and when you hit it was it truly a tap or did the case pick up and move a bit then drop back down... and when it started up did it full intilize (did you get any video) or did it just come on for 2 seconds and then go of.... i would personaly have to say powersupple because a hardware failure will USUALLY will not shut it down right awayr
computerdude
Gawd
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Try to test the power supply in another computer if you can, if works then I would say its a mobo problem since it doesn't even post.
Jinx_player
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try it in a diff computer, then after that, try it in yours again..
Ok, for the hell of it I decided to take out a stick of ram. After that my computer turned on and seemed to stay on, but I was getting error beeps. So I took out my video card, and put in a PCI video card. Now, the monitor turns on and it gets to the colorful DFI Lanparty screen and goes no further.
I thought it might be my CPU, so I took it out and tried turning my PC on and the monitor did not come on. So after bending 4 pins on my CPU and spending over an hour straightening them out, I'm back at the DFI Lanparty screen and don't know what to try next. I put both sticks of ram back in and I'm still able to turn my computer on. So I'm really confused as to what stopped it from working earlier.
I thought it might be my CPU, so I took it out and tried turning my PC on and the monitor did not come on. So after bending 4 pins on my CPU and spending over an hour straightening them out, I'm back at the DFI Lanparty screen and don't know what to try next. I put both sticks of ram back in and I'm still able to turn my computer on. So I'm really confused as to what stopped it from working earlier.
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Gawd
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when you pull out your processor the mobo wont kick on... it kinda needs it to work.... well you have some type of ram problem... maybe the chip you had in there wasnt seated properly.... unhook everything from your mobo that isnt necesary (basicly leave your boot drive) and make sure everything is good and tight... and hold on tight.... but im still feeling a psu issue...
Well, I forgot to hook my boot drive back up, so that was the problem. However, my Radeon X800XL still does not work. I was using it in the bottom PCI-E slot, and so I tried moving back up to the original top PCI-E slot, but that didn't make any difference. So, I think I need to send my video card in for repair. Thanks for all the help.