Hardware Problem! Require Immediate Assistance

144 · 13-09-2004, 05:33 AM

I was playing Tribes 2 provided on this months Digit DVD; decided to max all Graphics options; was playing with FULL SCREEN disabled.
Just 1 min after these changes- The screen went blank. The green Led on my cabinet was on. But I could see it was not rebooting; switched it off and tried to boot up. IT wouldn't.

after re checking by switching on and on again, I decided to open up. I touched the heat sink which was hot. ( not extremely hot)

After a while i plugged it back and re tried.

This time, I could see that on my mother board there is a green LED which is ON. (Does this mean the mother board is not fried up; that it is fine?).

I tried to switch it on. It wouldnt. But occasionally the fans start working (both proccesor fan and Power Supply fan) for a second and die off. During this time the RED LED on my casing also comes on for a sec and dies off ( I assumed the hard disk also starts to work! )..

Here are my sys specs:

AMD Athlon XP 2400+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MotherBoard.
512 MB RAM 333MHz
Samsung SATA 80GB Hard ?7200rpm
Samsung 753DFX 17" Monitor
nVidia GeForce MX 440 64MB card 8x
Mercury 'Oscar' cabinet with a 300W power supply.
OS : Windows XP Pro
[NO UPS]

I have checked and recheked- All the cables are plugged in- No loose cards. All capacitors on the MainBoard looks fine. No smell of fry ups. No Smoke. I have a Surge Protector. And there were no Brown Outs. Room Temperature was approx 29 degrees Celsius.

My Question is :
Can it be a the malfucntioning of the M Board or the P supply?

Any help would be appreciated much.

Thanks

theraven · 13-09-2004, 01:52 PM

its must be the power supply
the mobo comes on atleast
ur just not gettin the juice to ur mobo

oldmonk · 13-09-2004, 09:16 PM

go step by step:

first try to clear the cmos then try starting : if it works fine, get a new battery maybe.

If its the power supply - disconnect all the cables except the motherboard from the power supply- then try to start. If your SMPS is weak then pc should boot. Then get a new smps.

Does your MB have a speaker, if you dont have connect one to the motherboard and check for any error beeps. these are explained in the manual.

I think the CMos thing will work.

(if youre lucky)

144 · 14-09-2004, 06:15 AM

theraven and oldmonk; Thanks alot for your reply I appreciate the help.

I hv solved the problem. It was a faulty power cable. The power cable to my SMPS. Phew! What a relief.

cheers.