Sonikku
Lifer
I was on my PC when the power went out. When the power came back a few minutes later however the computer refused to power back on. Not at all. At first I tried unplugging it, waiting a few minutes then plugging it back in and trying again. Then I tried flipping the switch on the power back and forth a few times over the course of 20 minutes. Still won't power on.
I think it may be the power supply, but I have no other to try it with other then an older 400w 20 pin connector variant. Is there a way to hook up a 20pin psu to a 24 pin motherboard for the sake of seeing if it would power up? For that matter, is the PSU usually the likely culprit when situations like this happen?
If it's the motherboard or something else I fear I'm toast and I'm left with using an older machine. The only harddrive I have though is the one in my better machine and when I tried to hook it up windows would only boot in safe mode, probably from the jarring change in hardware. I think if I reinstall windows on the drive it will be fine, but it says formating the drive to do that during the windows install setup could potentially cause data loss. Now... I kind of want to keep the files on the drive. Will windows really delete all of it when it formats it to instal the OS on it again? It's a 250gig hdd with 70gigs free so I wouldn't know if it used the free space first or overwrote the used stuff. The only other option windows setup had was to instal the same os a second time on the same harddrive, which it said was unrecomomended.
I think it may be the power supply, but I have no other to try it with other then an older 400w 20 pin connector variant. Is there a way to hook up a 20pin psu to a 24 pin motherboard for the sake of seeing if it would power up? For that matter, is the PSU usually the likely culprit when situations like this happen?
If it's the motherboard or something else I fear I'm toast and I'm left with using an older machine. The only harddrive I have though is the one in my better machine and when I tried to hook it up windows would only boot in safe mode, probably from the jarring change in hardware. I think if I reinstall windows on the drive it will be fine, but it says formating the drive to do that during the windows install setup could potentially cause data loss. Now... I kind of want to keep the files on the drive. Will windows really delete all of it when it formats it to instal the OS on it again? It's a 250gig hdd with 70gigs free so I wouldn't know if it used the free space first or overwrote the used stuff. The only other option windows setup had was to instal the same os a second time on the same harddrive, which it said was unrecomomended.
