Computer won't turn on...

[Emrys]

Ok, I've been having terrible luck with my computer lately. So today I was ghosting a drive over to a new hard drive and after I did that and restarted the computer locked up at "Verifying DMI data pool." I had my dad check online and he told me that one of the problems could have been a corrupt CMOs so I cleared that by pulling the CMOS battery. Unfortunately that didn't fix anything and now when I push the power button nothing happens.

The light on the mobo for when it has power is on and I have checked the connection of the power button to the mobo.

Does anybody have any ideas what this could be and how I could fix it?

I'm out at school so I don't have much in the way of back-up parts to check things with.

Thanks,
Emrys

 

[lockmac]

Try getting a screwdriver and bridge the two pins that the power switch connects to. If it turns on, most likely you have a dodgy switch

 

[Emrys]

Originally posted by: lockmac
Try getting a screwdriver and bridge the two pins that the power switch connects to. If it turns on, most likely you have a dodgy switch

If not would you assume it is motherboard or powersuppy. I'd hate to buy another mobo since I just got this one about 3 months ago to replace another one that went bad.

 

[mechBgon]

You could help us out by posting, like, some hardware specs The more specific you can be, the more insight people will have.

 

[Emrys]

Originally posted by: mechBgon
You could help us out by posting, like, some hardware specs The more specific you can be, the more insight people will have.

Oh heh, that kind of slipped my mind, doh.

Abit IC7-G
P4 2.26
4 SCSI drives (73gig cheetah, 3 147gig cheetahs)
geforce 6800nu
768meg ram
audigy
WinXP pro

There ya go.

 

[mechBgon]

And what power supply, brand & model?

 

[daveybrat]

And what power supply, brand & model?

I was waiting for that response Mech


......i was wondering the same thing (sounds like a bad power supply to me)

 

[mechBgon]

Hehe Actually, I think the problem is all those Seagate Cheetahs. He'd better send them to me for proper disposal... yeah.

 

[Emrys]

It's an enermax wshisper 431w powersupply, never had any problems with it. And I think I'll be keeping the cheetahs