Bad PSU, or BAD Heat Sink?

[rflynn74]

All,

I just had my computer shut down on me. Upon trying to reboot it I got a loud buzz from my video card Radeon X1900XT, 2 red lights on it and my CPU fan wasn't moving at all. I tried taking off the CPU Heatsink (Big Typhoon) and re-mounting it. Disconnected all power and unplugged all motherboard power cables and reconnected it. All what happens is my system fan and CPU fan powers on for a second and then shuts off.

Any idea? Ive had my core 2 system running PERFECTLY for the past 3 weeks and now this. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

- Ryan

 

[rflynn74]

Full System Specs are



Core 2 E6300 yes it's overclocked, Radeon X1900XT 2 Gig Corsair PC 6400 DDR2 Ram, GIGABYTE DS3 motherboard.



Tried resetting the bios just a few minutes ago by taking out the battery, no go

 

[snor]

disonnect all other peripherals besides the memory, cpu, video card, and heatsink.
Clear the bios, then Confirm the power cables are all connected.
Try to boot from the windows disk, if it works, then your core components are good.
Afterwards, connect 1 piece of hardware at a time.

 

[brikis98]

if the system just died after working fine for a while, and nothing visibly drastic happened (you kicking the box, lightning, WW3, etc), then I'd guess the PSU crapped out.

you can do as snor says above, but i would recommend trying to see if the system will boot with a working PSU.