Yeah, I am a little peeved about it all. Needless to say I went a little more upscale in my replacement with a SeaSonic X-750 since I would rather not have to worry about a power supply breaking.
The last little kick while I am down is that the warranty just ran out this last spring, so now I...
Confirmed power supply issue. I swapped in my HTPC power supply and I got the desktop to boot. I was kinda leaning towards this because of the light flickering I was seeing.
(Just to double confirm I reconnected the old power supply and still nothing)
I do get an error tone if I disconnect the additional PCIE power connectors from the video card.
I will see about swapping in the PSU from my HTPC. It's only a 400W PSU so if it is a PSU issue hopefully that will be enough to at least let it boot so that I can confirm the issue.
If you want low power maybe consider an Atom build.
I just spent $300 on a whole new NAS setup (not counting hard drives, which I already had) and I went with a dual core atom setup.
Ok, so I have had a bit of a renewed desire to overclock my setup (at the bottom) since I have a GTX 470 on the way. Got 2GHz FSB/3.5GHz CPU/DDR2-1000 stable which was really awesome. I wanted to see if I might be able to squeeze out another 100MHz. Well, The computer failed to boot and did the...
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