As far as the story goes, January 08 built (mid-range?) pc;
Motherboard: Asus P5K-VM
CPU: Intel core 2 duo E2140 (1.6ghz)
Memory: Gskill 4gb ddr2
GPU: 8800gtx 768mb (Bought slightly later, hence integrated graphics for mobo)
PSU: Antec Basiq (500w)
O/S: XP x64
Did various slight upgrades over time inc;
Sound Card: Xfi titanium fat1lty pro pci-e
Wireless: Linksys wmp54gs
and a few hard-drives (currently 4)
O/S: win7 x64
Then while walking to work on Friday i get a call from my mum saying that my pc is making a loud screeching noise (i had left it turned on basically idling & i later managed to discern that the sound was the gpu's low power buzzer). So when i got home and my pc wouldn't boot i automatically assumed that it was the PSU gone to shit (buy cheap pay twice), this was backed by the fact on the occasion the operating system both windows 7 and xp had hung during boot on occasion after some of the later upgrades, which by google research tends to be down to lack of power.
So i ordered up;
PSU: XNX 650w Modular single 12v Rail [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/650W-XFX-XXX-Edition-Single-Rail-Modular-PSU-85-SLI-Xfire-EPS-12V-20plus4pin-Connector-135mm-Fan[/url]
That arrived Tuesday, fitted it, pretty much the same fault.
The fault being when you turn on the pc after a couple of seconds it turns back off again, then restarts (this is due to my bios setting to restart after power loss).
To see if it was just the processor fried i borrowed a friends spare Pentium D to try a boot with just cpu and ram (after clearing the cmos), similar result of it turns on, turns off after a couple of seconds then turns on again without turning off, but no output of the monitor.
At this point i'm pretty much certain the failure must be due to my fiddling with bios overclocking settings after i had updated my bios about 2 days previously (always reset settings after updating bios).
So i decided to update my mobo, cpu and ram seeing as everything now uses DDR3
I've now ordered
CPU: I7 930 (Retail) [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Intel-Core-i7-930-D0-SLBKP-Bloomfield-45nm-28-GHz-QPI-48GT-s-8MB-Cache-20x-Ratio-130W-Retail[/url]
Mobo: Asus P6X58D-E [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/Asus-P6X58D-E-Intel-X58-S1366-PCI-E-20-%28x16%29-DDR3-2000-%28OC%29-SATA-6Gb-s-SATA-RAID-ATX[/url]
Memory: Corsair Dominator (CMP6GX3M3A1600C8) [url]http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/6GB-%283x2GB%29-Corsair-Dominator-DDR3-PC3-12800-%281600%29-CAS-8-8-8-24-DHX-XMP-New-connector-165V[/url]
Hopefully when they arrive (mobo/cpu Friday & RAM upto Thursday next week (used some amazon seller to keep my total spent (ignoring psu, that was more impulse purchase) to £500.56) I'll be able to get it back up and running, and my expansion cards won't be screwed.
Anyone had similar hardware failures?
A friend's Enermax psu went out, but everything in his computer still worked. A psu failure could take the CPU or motherboard, or both, with it when it dies.
The fact that the computer does basically the same failure to reach bios with the new psu as old, leads me to believe it might not have been the psu.
[QUOTE=RoBaDoB;23855484]The fact that the computer does basically the same failure to reach bios with the new psu as old, leads me to believe it might not have been the psu.[/QUOTE]
Have you tried the old PSU in another computer?
When a PSU dies, it can take other components with it.
That's why it's a bad idea to buy cheap shitty ones.
It's just going to sit in a cupboard indefinitely.
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