I have an older custom computer (spec a bottom of post) that died last week. So by died I mean I went to turn my computer on, a bunch of thing came on for a couple secs then everything went silent. I turned my power supply off tried again, reset my power strip, and tried again, each time same thing.
After this I began to look at the problem more tactically, so to be specific here is what is going. When the Power supply is turned on, case fans and CPU fans run, lights on mobo and power switch come on, fan on the Graphics card twitches, then after a few secs all fans stop and power switch light goes dead. The lights one the motherboard stay on how ever. There is no other responsiveness. Pressing the power switch does nothing, there are no beep from the tweeter at any point either.
I was made to believe this is either a Power Supply or Mobo issue (if not srry for being in hardware) so Ive already taken the following steps
Im really a novice with all this so if there's any other info I should include just let me know and try to laymen it a little for me.
the specs
Mobo- Asus Striker Extreme
CPU- Core2Quad 6700
RAM- DDR2 (Corsair Dominator)
GPU- NX8800GTX
After this I began to look at the problem more tactically, so to be specific here is what is going. When the Power supply is turned on, case fans and CPU fans run, lights on mobo and power switch come on, fan on the Graphics card twitches, then after a few secs all fans stop and power switch light goes dead. The lights one the motherboard stay on how ever. There is no other responsiveness. Pressing the power switch does nothing, there are no beep from the tweeter at any point either.
I was made to believe this is either a Power Supply or Mobo issue (if not srry for being in hardware) so Ive already taken the following steps
- New outlet
- Tried replacing Bios battery (just because I could really)
- Tested power supply with multi-meter, All connections tested OK
- Tried starting with all peripherals unplugged/removed. Actually tried many times taking one out at a time till all were out.
- Removed and inspected motherboard for burns and shorts
- Check CPU for any apparent damage
- Put it all back together and tried again, plus tried bypassing the power switch by shorting the to power switch connector prongs.
Im really a novice with all this so if there's any other info I should include just let me know and try to laymen it a little for me.
the specs
Mobo- Asus Striker Extreme
CPU- Core2Quad 6700
RAM- DDR2 (Corsair Dominator)
GPU- NX8800GTX