Computer died over the weekend?

[Cheezeit]

Hey guys,

I went out of town over the weekend, only to just return and find that my computer won't boot. I press the power button, fans spin up, but no post or anything from the monitors.

I've tried booting several times only to get the same black screen with no video. I switched out the video card to find the video card fine, and a different card still results in a blank screen. I've disconnected everything but the CPU, motherboard, and ram and tried taking out one ram stick. Still no post.

At this point I think it's either the CPU, mobo, ram or psu. I have an E6400, a gigabyte DS3, buffalo firestix, and a corsair 520hx. Which one would most likely be the culprit?

I can take one step further and switch the PSU, even though that would ruin my 2 hour wiring job. I think it's unlikely 2 sticks of ram will fail at the same time. I have no other compatible Mobo or CPU to test on. Because of this, I'm hoping for a one shot fix or RMA.

Does anyone have a guess as to which is causing the problem? It seems so strange because this rig was working for a month up until this weekend. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,
Darren

 

[3chordcharlie]

Assuming nothing 'happened' your PSU is the most likely culprit.

 

[jackschmittusa]

You can try another psu without tearing all of your wiring out. Just disconnect the 2 connectors from the mb, connect the ones from another psu (which can sit on the bench), and try it for the mb, cpu, ram, vid card test.

 

[Mogadon]

Do what Jack said. If that doesn't work my personal opinion would be the DS3 simply because i've had one die on me, i've never had any CPU just 'die' on me and, like you said, the likelihood of both sticks of RAM 'going bad' at the same time is remote.

I'd take everything out of the case and test it on a bench to make sure it wasn't a short or anything before I started the RMA procedure and, of course, if you're able to get hold of more 'spare' parts you'll be able to nail the problem for sure.

 

[magreen]

Originally posted by: Mogadon
Do what Jack said. If that doesn't work my personal opinion would be the DS3 simply because i've had one die on me

Is that what the D in DS3 stands for?