Pc Died

[vivitron 15]

hmm, it seems to be bad news im afraid - i connected the green to a black and the case fans worked fine..i guess that rules out the psu? or could it still be that - different lines/voltages etc?

[tesco]

Originally posted by vivitron 15@19 May 2004 - 16:35
hmm, it seems to be bad news im afraid - i connected the green to a black and the case fans worked fine..i guess that rules out the psu? or could it still be that - different lines/voltages etc?

try plugging in just the bare essentials. motherboard, video card, cpu and ram...actually all u really need are the motherboard and cpu, it just wont boot up. (make sure u leave the cpu fan connected obviously)

[orcutt989]

Originally posted by james_bond_rulez@19 May 2004 - 20:49
you probably blown your power supply, just replace it and your back in the game

Thats what i was going to say.

[vivitron 15]

this is what i tried:

I cleared the CMOS as per the manual - nothing
Disconnected all but the MB, RAM, Video card and CPU and tried - nothing
Tried an old RAM stick - nothing

So now i am faced with that its either the Video card, CPU, MB or PSU.

the chance of it being the video card are pretty slim - i havent ever touched it since it went in, so im guessing from these its cpu/mb

edit: btw i am incredibly grateful to you all - i have very little cash at the minute, so am desperately trying to spend as little as poss - might try in the morning getting a PSU to test (outside the pc) then if it doesnt work, ill return it "unused and unwanted" then move on...though i could do with ordering soon, so i can get this thing fired back up - i doubt i can handle much longer typing on this laptop