Q: When I got home last night, I found that my computer was completely dead. I had to sleep for maybe 7 hours. When I returned, it would not wake back up and I have not been able to make it boot from. Im sure it must be either the motherboard or power supply. The only sign of life when the power is, it sounds like a very faint squeaking treble happes that every second or three fourths of a second.
I wanted to try and share the food, but do not have a similar design around that would work with my ASUS A8N-SLI Premium motherboard. I would prefer not to go out and buy a new local food just to test this, given that the Antec power supply is still under warranty (I bought it in February 2006).
Do you have any ideas or ways to help me solve this problem? I could really use some help. I bought all the parts online and have no comparable components available to swap in and test .
Here the full system: A8N-SLI
ASUS Premium
AMD 3700 977 503 Antec True Power 550W PSU (TP2-550EPS12V)
Corsair 2 x 1GB TwinX XMS RAM
Seagate Barracuda 7200.9 250MB
eVGA 7800 GT 256 MB – CO version
Sony ROM + DVD Samsung DVD burner
Thanks in advance!
Brad
Best Answer: You can usually find connectors that fit on a 4 pin molex and have a little pigtail with a fan connector. Most of the time when you buy a new fan they have them included. Another idea is a fan controller panel that will allow for multiple fans and also the ability to control the speeds of them. Someone please correct me, but the video card I have is a 2 pin while most fans aftermarket seem to use 3 pins which means you need to either hook it up to the mb or a molex.
If it's running too hot though, check the airflow in the case. Also it could be a bad contact between the heatsink and the chip. Does the heatsink seem loose at all?
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Re:Sometimes it's the power supply, sometimes it's only the motherboard that needs replacement.
Unless you have a power supply tester, I would consider it dead. The risk of testing the power supply with a new motherboard is just too great.
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Re:Well, I have tried as you suggested. I disconnected and reconnected everywhere possible. No change. Now, I just pulled out the memory and video card, disconnected everything from the mobo, and tried starting by shorting the power switch. No change. There are no fans on and no lights lit anywhere. Time to take it up with Antec…
Thanks for your help!
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Re:under those conditions i agree that the powersupply is your likely suspect. but i would try unplugging everything and reconnecting everything, try even to boot it with just the mobo, jump starting it with a screw driver to short the 2 power pins instead of the front panel. without the video card or memory installed in it. if it still doesnt spin a fan its definitely the power supply. but without doing any of that i would bet its the power supply , but only right after you reconnect the power connectors to the mobo from the power supply, providing there are still no light turning on when you look at the motherboard, after the voltage on the powersupply is set correctly to 115v(if america) and if there is a switch on the power supply, you switched it to "on."
yes you can take your hard drive and connect it to your old computer, providing the drive was IDE and your old pc's motherboard supports a hard drive that is 250GB, or if the drive is 250GB SATA (i think that drive is SATA), you would need to make sure the old pc had sata ports (unlikely) or have a sata card you can install in the old pc then to use the drive. you can't boot of the new PC's 250GB drive in the old pc since windows would blue screen preventing boot up since the chipset, etc is different. So the easiest option would be to set the drive to slave if IDE and put it on the same cable as the HD in your old pc, set it so the drive does not show up as the bootable drive, leaving the original HD in your old pc as the bootable HD. this will just let you get your data in the mean time.
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Re:Yep, I did unplug it overnight. That didn't change anything.
Regarding the beeping, I wouldn't really describe it as a beeping. It is more of the sound you hear from the second hand moving on a watch. It is that faint. But, just a little higher pitch.
I am not getting any fans to spin up at all. And no lights anywhere. With those symptoms, would you agree that the power supply is my likely suspect? I haven't tried unplugging everything yet, but will do that if you think it would help diagnose.
Also, until I can get it back up an running, am I able to take my hard drive out of my new computer and simply connect it to my old computer (from ~2001) to get some of the data off it? Not sure if I am asking for more trouble there. If I were to do that, can I just put the new HD in in place of the old HD and have everything boot up properly? Or should I set it up as a slave drive?
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Re:have you unplugged the pc, waited 30 seconds, then replugged it and turned it on to get the chirping each second? does this mean no fans spin up? try unplugging all the internal power cables, then reconnecting them, try reseating things like the video cards, memory, cpu, etc. since its beeping i'm guessing something is only loose, i dont think any hardware is bad, if you cant get any fans to spin up then it could be the power supply.
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