(Another) PC Power problem

[MrBond]

I'm build a system for my mother with the parts from my old pc. Basicly, I took my board, cpu, cards, power supply, and memory and put them in a new case for her. But now, I've got a pretty strange problem.

At first, I couldn't even get the system to power on. I pulled the board out, took out the cards except for the video, put it on a magazine (so it wouldn't short out), and attempted to power it on, no dice. Tonight, on a whim, I swapped the power connector on the floppy, and it powered up the fans, and the PS. But the cpu fan seemed to be spinning slowly, but I attributed that to my current PC and it's mega super crazy loud fans. The airflow through the case seemed fine as well. I had no cards in it, but I did have the drives in, so I powered off, plugged in the CDR/W, and turned it on again. The drive powered up fine, everything seemed fine. So I put all the cards back, plugged all the drives in, and prepared to ghost the old drive to the new one. But, upon powering on, no drives spun up this time, and no video signal was sent to the monitor. And this time, holding the power switch down for 5 seconds wouldn't power it down.

It's an abit BX6, it worked great for a couple years, then I pulled it out and swapped cases. It's essentially the same systme that worked great for me.

I'm thinking its either one of two things. Either I've got a card thats bad and it's just now showing it, or my power supply went bad w.o me knowing it. What do you guys think?

 

[CrazyHelloDeli]

It sounds like youre PS is dead or on deaths door since its not powering all devices. Does the BX6 Led show green or red when system is started?

 

[MrBond]

AFAIK, there isn't a led on the board. I'm thinking about taking it to work and picking up a new power supply there to test it with...we'll see.

 

[Jiggz]

You were on the right on your troubleshooting until you jumped on the gun and decided to replaced everything back instead of one at a time. If you had continued to add items one at a time you could have solved the problem and located which card, drive or even power connector line is bad. If you suspected a card is bad don't rule out the slot it goes in too. Try placing in on a different slot and same with drives and power connector lines. Goodluck.

 

[MrBond]

Yeah, I'm going to try the card at a time approach this afternoon (2.5hrs left at work, woohoo!) before I go replace the power supply. I have my doubts about the NIC I'm using. I'd have tried it last night, but I had a splitting headache when I posted the topic, so I posted and went to bed.