Computer won't start

chris311 · 04-16-2009, 05:23 PM

I have a desktop that broke last year. I took it to a shop to get fixed and the guy told me it was the motherboard. He couldn't find a motherboard and wouldn't deal with ebay. So I bought a laptop instead. When I picked my desktop up from his shop, the CPU, graphics card, and RAM were detached from the motherboard. Now I'm trying fix this desktop. I bought a new motherboard on ebay. I put everything back together turned it on and it started to boot and Windows started to load.Something it wouldn't do before.Then it stopped. I turned it on again and the only thing that happened was the fans started slowly and the HDD light in front started blinking. I was told it might be the power supply. So I put another used PSU in and only the cooling fans turned on. So I bought a new PSU on newegg. Put it in and nothing happened. I read some reviews about this PSU and people said that some were DOA. I sent it back, requested a replacement and same thing happened again. I put this new PSU in a old non working computer to see what would happen. The light on the motherboard came on. What does this mean. Do I have bad luck with PSU's or is it something else?

**simpswr** · 04-17-2009, 08:14 AM

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04-16-2009, 05:23 PM	#1 (permalink)
chris311 Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 8 OS: xp	Computer won't start I have a desktop that broke last year. I took it to a shop to get fixed and the guy told me it was the motherboard. He couldn't find a motherboard and wouldn't deal with ebay. So I bought a laptop instead. When I picked my desktop up from his shop, the CPU, graphics card, and RAM were detached from the motherboard. Now I'm trying fix this desktop. I bought a new motherboard on ebay. I put everything back together turned it on and it started to boot and Windows started to load.Something it wouldn't do before.Then it stopped. I turned it on again and the only thing that happened was the fans started slowly and the HDD light in front started blinking. I was told it might be the power supply. So I put another used PSU in and only the cooling fans turned on. So I bought a new PSU on newegg. Put it in and nothing happened. I read some reviews about this PSU and people said that some were DOA. I sent it back, requested a replacement and same thing happened again. I put this new PSU in a old non working computer to see what would happen. The light on the motherboard came on. What does this mean. Do I have bad luck with PSU's or is it something else?

04-17-2009, 08:14 AM	#2 (permalink)
simpswr Moderator Hardware Team Join Date: May 2007 Location: Houston, Texas Posts: 12,267 OS: XP, Vista, Win 7	Re: Computer won't start Click on the Bench test link in my signature and follow the trouble shooting steps. __________________ Rich MemTest86 \| BenchTest \| Virus/Trojan/Spyware Help How to post a Screen Shot \| PC running slow?