Comptuer won't start up.

[zmzhang]

Yesterday night, my uncle shut down his comptuer and went to sleep. In the morning, when he pressed the power button, the comptuer won't start. I tried reseating everything and did the wire trick and got the power supply to start. What else could be the problem? Thanks

P4 1.7
Soyo Fire Dragon
256mb pc2700 ram
60 gig hd
geforce 2 mx

 

[leinadM]

This has happend to be 3 times in the last 2 months..., I'd just wake up and find my computer dead. It ended up being HD, memory, and power supply.

Correction: This has happend to me "4" times in the last 2 months, the other time it was my CPU. Talk about bad luck :frown:

 

[alphonsus]

Try unpluging the powersupply from the motherboard and turn the switch off on the powersupply (if you have a switch). Plug it back in a few seconds later.

 

[BenRosey]

It could be a variety of things. I suspect a failure in the power supply propogated to affect other components. Perhaps the motherboard.

 

[zmzhang]

I brought the mb to a friend's house and tested. The mb is dead. Time to RMA it to soyo. Anyways, could the powersupply of burned out the mb? it doesn't seem too likely that the mb will decide to stop working one day.

 

[zmzhang]

The powersupply is a RaidMax 350 watt

3.3v 16A
5V 25A
12V 14A

Should i get this replaced?

 

[mechBgon]

I would, RaidMax seems like one of those comanies that will put a lot more effort into the outward appearance than the engineering. With apologies to any RaidMax fans how about a nice Sparkle Power, Antec, Heroichi, Enlight, Enermax... those seem to have earned a good-to-excellent reputation with people around here.

 

[bendixG15]

Always blame the power supply. LOL

The mobo has plenty of components that could have popped.

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: bendixG15
Always blame the power supply. LOL

The mobo has plenty of components that could have popped.

I suppose that would be easy to check... try powering another known-working system with the power supply and see if it's alive.

 

[zmzhang]

Originally posted by: bendixG15
Always blame the power supply. LOL

The mobo has plenty of components that could have popped.

lol. What i'm afrade of is the powersupply has a defect and if i try to power it up with another system, it might fry the other system's mb.

 

[zmzhang]

^bump

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: zmzhang

Originally posted by: bendixG15
Always blame the power supply. LOL

The mobo has plenty of components that could have popped.

lol. What i'm afrade of is the powersupply has a defect and if i try to power it up with another system, it might fry the other system's mb.

It sounds like your best plan would be to get a new decent-quality power supply to test your system with. They're one of the less-expensive parts even if you do get a name-brand one.