Hi all,
My PC recently has begun to refuse to power on. It is a home-built system and had worked fine for almost 6 years prior to the problem occurring.
The symptom is that the green power-status LED mounted directly on the motherboard (amongst the PCI-E slots) is now blinking slowly (about 1 blink per second) whenever the PSU is connected/switched on.
Since the issue occurred I have tried a different motherboard, a different PSU and also only using 1 stick of RAM in the machine. The issue repeats with the different motherboard/PSU combination, with exactly the same symptom - system won't power on and green Power-status LED blinking slowly, once per second or so.
Could this indicate a fried CPU? Is this indicative of me being a total fool and forgetting to connect a certain connector to the motherboard (I once forgot to apply the CPU power cable and thought my machine had died for 2 days...)?
Any assistance appreciated. All components are confirmed as 100% compatible with one another although I can provide a full component list if required. My main question is what does the slowly blinking power-status LED mean?
Both Motherboards are ASUS boards, the PSUs are a 750w and 1000w unit so both supply ample power. The CPU is an intel QX6700.
Thanks for your assistance.
My PC recently has begun to refuse to power on. It is a home-built system and had worked fine for almost 6 years prior to the problem occurring.
The symptom is that the green power-status LED mounted directly on the motherboard (amongst the PCI-E slots) is now blinking slowly (about 1 blink per second) whenever the PSU is connected/switched on.
Since the issue occurred I have tried a different motherboard, a different PSU and also only using 1 stick of RAM in the machine. The issue repeats with the different motherboard/PSU combination, with exactly the same symptom - system won't power on and green Power-status LED blinking slowly, once per second or so.
Could this indicate a fried CPU? Is this indicative of me being a total fool and forgetting to connect a certain connector to the motherboard (I once forgot to apply the CPU power cable and thought my machine had died for 2 days...)?
Any assistance appreciated. All components are confirmed as 100% compatible with one another although I can provide a full component list if required. My main question is what does the slowly blinking power-status LED mean?
Both Motherboards are ASUS boards, the PSUs are a 750w and 1000w unit so both supply ample power. The CPU is an intel QX6700.
Thanks for your assistance.
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