PC dead any ideas?

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God my week isn't going too well. I've bought a new Core Due 2 system and have built it myself. Now when I turn the PC on it switches on for 1 second then dies. I've tried everything and I'm stumped. I think it could be my new PSU. I've swapped the motherboard for a new one and it's still not working. I've got two 1GB Ram sticks and have tried them both and single in all the slots. I've tried with two different Hard Drives and with and without the CPU just to see if it posted. I've also tried the setup in and out of the case.

Any ideas as I don't have parts to swap out as I'm an AMD man usually so the parts don't fit. Does this sound like a PSU failure?

 

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Hi slypie, do you get any screen output or beep codes at all? What evidence is there of the PC powering up for a second? Does the fan spin up etc?

 

Could be the PSU. Is it a new one? Are you sure its powerful enough?

If not the PSU then I'd look at the CPU.

 

It *could* be that the PSU isn't high enough power on one of the lines.

The PC won't post without the CPU!

One way to test is to remove all the drives, and fit an ordinary cheap low-power video card and then attempt the boot. Also try a small amount of memory.

Does it beep on boot? Or doesn't it stay up long enough for that?

Use a DVM on the important rails to make sure they are up to the correct values.

Harry.

 

Does the PSU work in another system?

 

slypie,

Questions:

• What make and model motherboard are you using?
• What make and model CPU are using?

 

er- did i just read this?

edit: yep - double post.

 

sorry guys should of mentioned it's a new 700w Jeantech PSU. The only things it could be IMHO is the PSU or the CPU which is a Core Duo 2 E6600. I've also tried the PSU in a 20 pin motherboard mine is 24 pin so it doesn't rule out that using the extra 4 pins are faulty.

 

Well when one of my PC's did this it was because the CPU fan stopped working and it would turn itself off because it was going over the threshold, not saying that is the problem but it could be.

 

Technically, it could also be the motherboard.

 

He said he tried another mobo.

Have you tried disconnecting everything that's not essential, any extra cards like NICs, modems. Also, without the hard drive, optical drives - just the PSU, mobo, cpu and video?

700 Watts is ample power I am sure but there is a good chance that it is a faulty new PSU. CPU's rarely give a symptom of a comletely dead PC. However, it looks like it's one or the other, and my monies on the PSU!

 

Sorry - I'll try to get my money back on my LASIK surgery. ;) heh!

 

Yep, looks like they saw you coming and stitched you up like a kipper

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i go with what blue rinse said, unplug everything but the Vid card and KB. maybe also check the placing of the ram on the mobo some mobo's can get a bit picky if not in the right slots. reset the bios even.

 

I think it's just been bad luck and is my PSU thats at fault. I probably shouldn't of done it but I plugged my 20 pin spare PSU into the 24 pin socket and switched it on and it worked. The strange thing is I plugged my 24 pin PSU into my old PC only using the first 20 pins and that worked. So it must be the extra 4 pins that are faulty or the 8 pin power lead that my new motherboard needs...

Anyway guys cheers for all the help it's really helped me figure this out.