Blinking power LED - Asus A8N SLI Premium

[ryanhfx]

My new sysem ran great for several days. This evening I powered it down and when I attempted to power it back up it wouldn't start. I've checked power connections and the leads running from the case power switch to the MB and all seems in order.

I did notice that the green LED on the motherboard (the one that indicates that it has power) is blinking somewhat irregularly. Is this normal? Or is my power supply / mb flaky?

Athlon 64 X2 3800+
OCZ 2x1gb DDR400 Platinum
Asus A8N SLI Premium Motherboard
Gigabyte GV-NX66T128VP GeForce 6600 GT Turbo Force Edition PCI Express
Sound Blaster Audigy ZS 2
Western Digital Raptor 74GB
Samsung SpinPoint 200GB x 2
Zalman CNPS9500 LED 92mm
Seasonic S12-430 PSU (430watts)
Antec P180 case

 

[pitt1989]

Did you ever find out why your led was blinking?

 

[Capt Caveman]

The Power LED should stay solid green. My guess is that you're motherboard is not completely grounded and short-circuiting or a possible psu issue.

 

[pitt1989]

Yea my power supply burned up. I bought a new one but the system won't boot up. The green light just blinks. and the fans just jitter back and forth.

Any suggestions.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Try and reset your CMOS jumper.

 

[pitt1989]

I did that and I took out the battery to then reset the cmos, but still not boot. I even took out a power supply from another working computer and put it in and it still did not work just blinking green led.

 

[Capt Caveman]

Is the mobo in your case? How about trying it outside of it? I just wonder if something is shorting it out.

 

[pitt1989]

I'll try that and let you know
Thanks..............

 

[KBTuning]

probably a mobo issue..... i hope its not because i plan on getting that mobo REAL soon.

 

[pitt1989]

My old power supply smelt like it burned up so all I did was go out and buy a new power supply. I hooked it up and nothing happened except that the mother board green led light up but no boot up and no fans or hdds.