need some help please

[muchspl3]

power supply, that happen to my friend after pulling out parts and hair as many times as you did it turned out to be a the PS.

good luck

[lee551]

power supply, that happen to my friend after pulling out parts and hair as many times as you did it turned out to be a the PS.

good luck

i'll try and determine if any of the ones i have laying around are still good. if i find a working one i'll test that possibility. thanks for the tip.

[DeepBlue1975]

Typical PSU problem.
Gets into "latch mode" and doesn't come back to life until you reseat some (or all) the components attached to the motherboard (sometimes it's not enough by just unplugging the motherboard)

I used to have that problem, thought it was the motherboard by then but... It was the PSU, which finally died and never again started up.

[lee551]

Typical PSU problem.
Gets into "latch mode" and doesn't come back to life until you reseat some (or all) the components attached to the motherboard (sometimes it's not enough by just unplugging the motherboard)

I used to have that problem, thought it was the motherboard by then but... It was the PSU, which finally died and never again started up.

interesting, thanks for the tip.

[Seedler]

Now I'm finally starting to see the importance of a good PSU.

[lee551]

a little update.

got a completely new setup for the family. put in the ATI card that was in the original box and got that all lined up and ready for gaming. we try our first game. after about 10 seconds of play, poof! black screen. restart, everything's fine again. install a second game, after about 20 seconds of play, poof! black screen again.

ok, obviously the gfx card is failing. no biggie, it's getting old/outdated. most games are running fine with the onboard video for now anyways, so that's not a major problem.

what i'm wondering about is why switching gfx cards in the original machine didn't seen to fix the problem? i'm kinda thinking it was a combination of the failing gfx card and the possibly failing psu.

i'm still planning on finding a working psu to replace in the original machine in addition to a different gfx card. hopefully that'll solve the problem and we'll have the ole box back in action.