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Computer pain.. wont post, wont boot up, only fans start spinning

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LordJezo

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Well, last night my sound card fell out as I was plugging in my headphones.. I never bothered to screw it down.

I powered down, screwed in the sound card, and then the pain began.

First my power supply was somehow broken. It refused to power back up the system.


So, I unplugged everything, switched the power supply, and went to turn it back on.

Which is where I am now. The fans start spinning, the hard drives spin up, the cpu and video card fans start spinning.. but nothing else happens. The monitor never gets a signal from the video card that everything is turned on and the mother board never does its boot up beep.

On the motherboard there is a green LED that lights up when the motherboard is properly connected to the power supply. It turns green but that is about it.

So thats where I am now.. fans spin, power led lights up, but nothing else happens.

Ideas?
 
looks like you killed the board,always screw cards in & never remove while pc is turned on.

It seems your learned a valuable lesson,at a high price but a lesson still. 🙁
 
Strange that it was fine and working until I shut it down right after the card fell out.

Do you think the CPU is blown or just the motherboard?

Still trying to figure out a way to test it all..

How about the cards? Does everything blow all at once?
 
I agree with Budman on what he said but just in case check one thing. When you put the soundcard back in the slot is is all the way in and not in at an Angle?? Check to be sure if you have not as I have seen that cause your problem.

In the future though always secure the cards. I have told people for years what can happen when a pci, AGP Etc card is pulled out with the system powered on. Some still will not listen.

Good luck. Also when the card came out did it fall and hit something and maybe knock a jumper off or something?

Just a thought.
 
I put nothing back in except the video card.. ram, hdds, everything.. all out. I just want it to post at this point and give me an error screen about not finding ram. But even with the ram in nothing happens.

I will go try to reset the bios but I dont know what that will do. At least if that power led on the mobo wasnt on I would be happy knowing it was 100% fried, and not just fried enough to not work for me.

And as for not screwing everything down.. yeah, I know, my own fault. I always knew I should screw it down but I was just too lazy. Guess I learned the hard way!!
 
OH MAN YOU WERE COMPLETELY RIGHT!!!!!!

SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!

Reset the BIOS, waited a bit, powered back on, VICTORY!!!

Now that you mentioned it I remember that when I powered down the PC the first time I accidently hit it into sleep mode and then just pulled the plug on it.

Maybe that messed everything up, but I dont care! It all works.

Victory is mine, and I just saved a few hundered bucks!
 
Originally posted by: LordJezo
OH MAN YOU WERE COMPLETELY RIGHT!!!!!!

SO EXCITED RIGHT NOW!!

Reset the BIOS, waited a bit, powered back on, VICTORY!!!

Now that you mentioned it I remember that when I powered down the PC the first time I accidently hit it into sleep mode and then just pulled the plug on it.

Maybe that messed everything up, but I dont care! It all works.

Victory is mine, and I just saved a few hundered bucks!
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:laugh::beer: :beer:


Now go screw that card in tight !!!!! 😉
 
Originally posted by: Storm
Wierd feeling of deja vu?

Well at least you got a second opinion... 🙂
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Heh.. well the post last night was with the original power supply. I tried a second one like you suggested and still got nothing, which was what this post was about.

Funny thing is, once the bios was reset the original power supply worked!!
 
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