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Computer won't turn on...

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Emrys

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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
 
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
 
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
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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.
 
You could help us out by posting, like, some hardware specs 🙂 The more specific you can be, the more insight people will have.
 
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.
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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.
 
Hehe 😀 Actually, I think the problem is all those Seagate Cheetahs. He'd better send them to me for proper disposal... yeah. 😉
 
It's an enermax wshisper 431w powersupply, never had any problems with it. And I think I'll be keeping the cheetahs 😛
 
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