Asus A8V help needed!!

[ruefy13]

Hi everyone,

Ok, the situtation actually applies to my friend and he has no internet currently so I need your help to help him. He just built his first PC which has been running great for just over a week now. Specs are as close as i know: Aspire X-navigator case w/generic 500W PS, A64 3000+, ASUS A8V Deluxe Mobo, 1 gig corsair xms pro ram, and a WD SATA drive, DVD/RW drive.

Now here's the prob. Today he came home turned on his PC and it started for about 1 sec and then just shut off completely. Now when he pushes the power button nothing happens.....the case fans don't even come on. So, i'm guessing either PS or mobo. He has tried a PS he has from a 5 year old HP pc that he said he connected but nothing happened again....i don't know if that really was a valid test. I would let him test with some of my stuff but he lives 3 hours from me currently. He is extremely computer saavy and the PC has been running great for 1.5 weeks with no probs and now this. What do you recommend he do or think it is??? If it were just the PS shouldn't it have worked with the other PS(maybe???) or could it have taken out the whole mobo. Thats what he is guessing, but he can't find visible burn marks and he has tried shorting the power switch connecters to rule them out.

Any help please?

 

[Skoop]

Sounds like a short. Have him pull the board out. Bet he finds a screw under it.

 

[ChineseDemocracyGNR]

I would bet the PSU died. Tell your friend to order a new one, because even if this is not the issue, running that system on a generic PSU is askign for trouble.

btw, that old PSU probably doesn't have a 12V 4-pin connector, so that really wasn't a valid test.

 

[ruefy13]

Thanks for the replies.....any other ideas...i'll tell him to get a new PSU anyways and i think he was leaning that way anyways.....

Why is the test with the old PSU not valid if it doesn't have that 4pin 12V connector??? just wondering...i thought it wouldn't work because its a 5 year old Hewlett Packard PSU but don;t know why?

Any other help...thanks for the quick replies

 

[joelslaw]

you HAVE TO connect the 4 pin 12V to start up, otherwise the cpu dosen't get the power it needs

 

[ruefy13]

Sorry, I probably should have known that, but i'm still in the dark ages with my Socket A board.....i didn't know the board required the 4 pin 12 volt......my friends going to buy a quality power supply and see what happens.....any recommendations....i like antec so i recommended those to him.

Thanks and if anyone thinks of anything ele let me know.

 

[ruefy13]

Sorry guys......just found some new info that might be important. The PSU in the case he got is actually a decent Aspire PSU....the clear one for $56 on newegg. I don't know about their PSU quality and for $56 for 500W is pretty cheap so i wouldn't expect much, but just so you know it isn't a complete generic PSU. I think it still is the PSU but what do you recommend.....by the way if he wants to return the PSU to newegg for a replacement do you think he can just send it in because he bought it together with a case.....here's the product link http://www.newegg.com/app/View...=11-144-090&depa=0

kind of sucks if he hase to return the whole case...but ohh well. Any suggestions.

 

[YabbyU]

I had the same problem with a NEO2 Platinum. Ran great for a week then one Sunday morning I went to boot and nada. Have him turn the PSU switch on and off and then power up the PC and see if the fans spin at all. Mine would spin a 1/2 second then nothing.

I tried 3 different PSU's with identical results. Turned out the mobo was bad.