- Jan 16, 2005
- 92
- 0
- 0
Well as a way to try and simplify my previous post I'll try and sum up what has been found out so far in a few sentences. I had and AMD 3000+ processor on a gigabyte ga-k8ns pro motherboard and i originally had to send back the motherboard because updating the bios failed and it wouldn't turn on. I got the replacement though and I used it for maybe 24 hours time and the 12 last hours were just continuously on sleep because I forgot to turn it off. It was sitting there and then it just turned off with no warning. I tried to turn it back on, switch plugs etc but it clearly wasn't the lack of power coming in. When the power button is pressed nothing happens at all. No fans, hard drives whirring, lights, sounds or anything else. (incidently I can hear this small sound of the motherboard powering down if i remove the power from it) I thought it was the psu originally because it was so crappy but on a whim I tried the psu on a friends computer who had the exact same setup of mine save the hard drives and it actually turned on. To me this means that the psu clearly isn't messed up but it is something else probably the motherboard. What do you guys think it is and what test should I do to confirm or deny it? I don't understand how it can work for such a long period of time and then fail if it was something big like a short in the board. I have the board raised up by spacers so it shouldn't be that it is shorting with the case but I could be wrong. I don't really know what to do at this point and I'm sorry for reposting but I'm at a point where I'm out of my league and I don't know how to progress.
Thanks,
Stephen
Here are my specs:
Gigabyte ga-k8ns pro
2 seagate 80gb harddrives (type 0 raid)
Corsair 3200 DDR 512 mb
Radeon 9600se (by sapphire)
I also had a nec dual layer burner and a sony 1.44 floppy drive.
PS- Oh and I also tried resetting the CMOS by taking out the battery for like 10 minutes.
Thanks,
Stephen
Here are my specs:
Gigabyte ga-k8ns pro
2 seagate 80gb harddrives (type 0 raid)
Corsair 3200 DDR 512 mb
Radeon 9600se (by sapphire)
I also had a nec dual layer burner and a sony 1.44 floppy drive.
PS- Oh and I also tried resetting the CMOS by taking out the battery for like 10 minutes.