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I will try to be as specific as possible. I really need help, so please, please, any question you have to ask for me to help you ask 
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Problem:
I received a call from one of my clients this morning, and received the bad news that one of the computers at her work wasn't working. When I got there the computer turned on, worked for 1 minute, then shut down. Immediately after, if you tried to turn it on, the computer flickered but didn't actually turn on. I left it like that for about 10 minutes then came back and it turned on again but with the same symptom.
I thought bad psu so I decided to go down and check on another computer with the "same" symptom. Got down but the other computer didn't actually turn on, it had the small green light on and the monitor's light was blinking but other than that nothing worked. I decided to go to a completely working computer, take out the PSU, set it on one of the non working ones and turn them to see if that worked. Sadly, it didn't, I checked everything was connected but nothing turned on, even the one that was booting to windows then shutting down wouldn't turn on now.
At this moment I honestly didn't know what could be wrong (motherboard maybe, dunno) so I decided to connect the working psu to the computer that was perfectly fine, and to my amazement, now after everything was in place and crosschecked the computer that was working wouldn't turn on and it showed exactly the same symptom as the first floor one, green light on, monitor light blinking, but no power to turn it on, no fans anything.
So, now I have 3 computers that are dead, and don't find a reasonable explanation. Particularly because I had one of them working and after I swapped the PSU and found that it didn't work, when I reconnected everything to the original working one, that wouldn't work either.
A friend of mine came home (I brought 2 of the computers) and tried to do the pin trick on the psu, and we can turn the fans in the case (so the PSU from both the non working comps are apparently working) but we try plugging the psu with the pin to a cd-rom drive and it doesn't open or does anything...
Information on the computers:
PSU: Hydra Model: LP 450a (pretty generic)
Proc: Athlon 64 socket 754 2800+
Mobo: Biostar Nforce 3.
So that's my problem... Any suggestions are really welcome, sorry for the long long post but there's no other real way I can explain. Any other info you need please ask. I really need help on this one.
. Problem:
I received a call from one of my clients this morning, and received the bad news that one of the computers at her work wasn't working. When I got there the computer turned on, worked for 1 minute, then shut down. Immediately after, if you tried to turn it on, the computer flickered but didn't actually turn on. I left it like that for about 10 minutes then came back and it turned on again but with the same symptom.
I thought bad psu so I decided to go down and check on another computer with the "same" symptom. Got down but the other computer didn't actually turn on, it had the small green light on and the monitor's light was blinking but other than that nothing worked. I decided to go to a completely working computer, take out the PSU, set it on one of the non working ones and turn them to see if that worked. Sadly, it didn't, I checked everything was connected but nothing turned on, even the one that was booting to windows then shutting down wouldn't turn on now.
At this moment I honestly didn't know what could be wrong (motherboard maybe, dunno) so I decided to connect the working psu to the computer that was perfectly fine, and to my amazement, now after everything was in place and crosschecked the computer that was working wouldn't turn on and it showed exactly the same symptom as the first floor one, green light on, monitor light blinking, but no power to turn it on, no fans anything.
So, now I have 3 computers that are dead, and don't find a reasonable explanation. Particularly because I had one of them working and after I swapped the PSU and found that it didn't work, when I reconnected everything to the original working one, that wouldn't work either.
A friend of mine came home (I brought 2 of the computers) and tried to do the pin trick on the psu, and we can turn the fans in the case (so the PSU from both the non working comps are apparently working) but we try plugging the psu with the pin to a cd-rom drive and it doesn't open or does anything...
Information on the computers:
PSU: Hydra Model: LP 450a (pretty generic)
Proc: Athlon 64 socket 754 2800+
Mobo: Biostar Nforce 3.
So that's my problem... Any suggestions are really welcome, sorry for the long long post but there's no other real way I can explain. Any other info you need please ask
. I really need help on this one.