Someone shoot me... HELP

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Gillette

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I just I just managed to kill my main PC.

I was plugging something into my powerbar and hit the on/off switch* which instantly snapped back on after the plug was all the way in. While it was off (literally for under .5 seconds) my main PC went died, and when the power came back on it seemed like it was still up and running.

I said hey, weird.... and decided to check the screen. No video output. I restart, no POST, no video output. Power all the way down, let it sit for a minute or two stupidly thinking that will help, power up again, still no video output, and no post.

All of the fans power on, the power switch conected to the motherboard still works, the LED on the motherboard saying it is recieving power still works, my hard drives still spin up, and my cd-rom drives do their normal "i got power so im going to light up for a second"...

I've got no clue what the heck is going on.

Please note that the warranty on both my video card and motherboard are void, and I have no intention of scamming their makers. Fortunatley I have the money to replace this system, however it would be a massive dent in my chequebook.

If anyone has any ideas as to what to do here, any testing methods, anything, I would greatley appreciate hearing them as soon as possible.

-Gillette

*the switch is ducttaped down in the On position.
 
You could try resetting the BIOS. If you have a spare PSU around, definately try that too.
 
It might have just been leaving it alone that did it.

There was a power spike here the other night, made the computer shut off. Everything else: monitor, printer, PS2, etc. came back on. The computer didn't. Pushed the power button a few times...nothing.

Checked powerstrip..."protected" light is still on.

Hmmm....

Pushed power button a few more times...still nothing. I notice through the case window that the power LED on the motherboard is still on and get VERY confused.

I flip the power switch off on the PSU and wait for the LED to turn off. It does, and I flip the PSU back on. LED comes back on. Press the power button and bingo, no problems at all.


My guesses:
  1. Some capacitors got over/under charged in the spike/outage/whatever it was. The power cycle helped everything get back to normal.
  2. Everything just needed to sit for a minute, and whatever I would have done, be it flipping switches or dancing in the bathtub would have "fixed" it.
  3. The computer just wanted some time off and used a storm as an excuse.
 
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