comp not booting up

[sinkoman]

So I moved my comp to a friends house, get there, plug everything in as it would be at my house, and try to boot the ****er up.

Nothing.

And so far, i've tried pretty much everything I can think of. I've unplugged everything, i've taken out the vid card and tried then, reset the power supply, unplugged and replugged all the motherboard connections...

Hell, i've even tried shorting the "power switch" pins on my mobo manually (via a knife).

NOTHING....................

Ideas?

 

[giant384]

can you elaborate when you say "not booting up" there are many many reasons why it couldnt boot up. does it turn on at all? does it ever get to the post screen? EXPLAIN PLZ

 

[sinkoman]

Not booting as in not even posting.

 

[giant384]

so its doesnt power on at all.....explain more of what youve done. it will help. have you messed with anything beforehand?

 

[Naudian]

Do the fans come on? Lights?

 

[sinkoman]

Nothing, no power at all. The only thing i've done with it is lay it flat on the back seat of a car and drive it down to my friends.

 

[Naudian]

Well to see if its the PSU or not I would swap it for another one and see what happens...

 

[huntingbear]

are you sure there's just no power in that wall outlet? some old houses have an outlet or two wired to a wall switch that you can turn on and off; I have one in my house.

 

[Barney Fife]

Reset Cmos, internal Cmos battery may getting old and wont keep Bios settings for long. Check PSU button is switch to on or "I" make sure the wall jack itself isn't dummy and actually has current. try and make sure memory, 12v CPU rail, 20/24-pin board connection, HDD data cables and nothing in such isn't unplugged or loose.

NOTE: That you must use a wall-jack which actually has the ground cable (The third pin-hole) working, otherwise PSU will not turn on without ground connection, some houses may have the three hole wall-jack which only two of em (The + and the -) is working and the third (the ground connection) is just dummy.

Good Luck.

 

[sinkoman]

Already tried the resetting CMOS.

Turned out that it WAS my PSU. Right now i'm borrowing a friend 350 watt and running it in conjunction with my 480 (480 powering my fans and video card, 350 powering drives and motherboard), till I get a new one.

My old PSU was a TrueBlue 480. Anybody have an suggestions for a new PSU? It'll have to power 2 SATA drives, 2 IDE CD drives, a 8800GTS (640 mb model), and a 3500+. I'm willing to spend a bit of money on a product that'll last.

 

[Qonfused]

PC Power and Cooling
Antec (I don't know why I keep pushing this company as two have died on me)
FSP Group

 

[Naudian]

Ultra V-series.

They're relatively inexpensive and mines lasted me for a year so far...

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applicat...keywords=Ultra+V-Series&image1.x=0&image1.y=0

Most of them seem to have lots of amperage on the 12v rail, which was the main thing I was worried about when I bought mine...

 

[Glirk Dient]

You sure it wasn't the power switch on the back of the PSU? Or perhaps the voltage selector got switched. Try both of those.

 

[sinkoman]

You sure it wasn't the power switch on the back of the PSU? Or perhaps the voltage selector got switched. Try both of those.

Wasn't either. The PSU had been acting irritating lately (had to restart it all the time), and then I guess the move to my friends house just pissed it off : /

 

[Barney Fife]

Moving to a friend's house don't usually piss PSU, Overloads do.

 

[sinkoman]

Moving to a friend's house don't usually piss PSU, Overloads do.

I mean, I really do doubt that my just "moving" it there ticked the ****er off, but I was just sort of indicating a general sense of "I must have done something along the way there that sent it to the shitter".