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It started a while back whn I tried to do some minor upgrading (what I did doesn't matter anymore). The uprgrade was more or less sucessful but then the computer began to freeze or get hung up performing some tasks. Whenever it did I usually had to pull out the pwer cord becuase nothing else responded. Once I actually shut down with no porblems but when I went to start again i got nothing; no beeps, no screen, nothing. The lights were on but no one was home.
I experimented a bit and discovered the fan on the power supply came on but nothing else. i'd checked other forums which sugested maybe the vid card so I took out everything with the same results.
Eventually I got no response from anything. No power at all for the machine. So now I'm down to either the power supply or the mtherboard. After saving a bit I replaced both with a 300w power supply and a generic motherboard w/ AMD XP 2200 processor and 512 ddr ram.
Still nothing. I brought the machine to work hoping maybe our tech guy could help. So we switched power supplies: mine didn't work in the other machince, but the other power supply (from the working machine) didn't work in mine either.
Could the problem be in the power switch or could it be something else? I was told there was a way of jump starting the power supply bypassing the power swithc; anyone know how to do this? And what about my brand new power supply no good as well?
I know this is a long post but I'm hoping the more detail the better an answer. I appreciate whatever help you can give.
I experimented a bit and discovered the fan on the power supply came on but nothing else. i'd checked other forums which sugested maybe the vid card so I took out everything with the same results.
Eventually I got no response from anything. No power at all for the machine. So now I'm down to either the power supply or the mtherboard. After saving a bit I replaced both with a 300w power supply and a generic motherboard w/ AMD XP 2200 processor and 512 ddr ram.
Still nothing. I brought the machine to work hoping maybe our tech guy could help. So we switched power supplies: mine didn't work in the other machince, but the other power supply (from the working machine) didn't work in mine either.
Could the problem be in the power switch or could it be something else? I was told there was a way of jump starting the power supply bypassing the power swithc; anyone know how to do this? And what about my brand new power supply no good as well?
I know this is a long post but I'm hoping the more detail the better an answer. I appreciate whatever help you can give.