Issues with a dead PSU

[Raptor45]

Woke up this morning and my computer was off... but I had left it running last night. Turns out my PSU went and was no longer giving power. Luckily my roomate still had his spare, so I put it in and now the motherboard appears to get power, but nothing shows up on screen. I have an EVGA NF41.

I press power, LED screen says FF ("boot"), all fans turn on... but nothing shows on screen.

Any ideas whats wrong?

 

[cprince]

Reset the BIOS. If that doesn't help, then your power supply probably fried your motherboard or other components(RAM, CPU, etc..)

 

[Raptor45]

I already tried to reset the BIOS. Is there anyway to confirm what died on me? I just bought a new dual core 3800+ which I haven't even gotten to install... It would suck to need a new motherboard/ram/cpu and everything.

 

[cprince]

Originally posted by: Raptor45
I already tried to reset the BIOS. Is there anyway to confirm what died on me? I just bought a new dual core 3800+ which I haven't even gotten to install... It would suck to need a new motherboard/ram/cpu and everything.

any beeps? Did the hard drive get accessed? anything other than a blank screen?

 

[robisbell]

get a multimeter and manually test the psu.

walkthroughs are found via google.

 

[BladeVenom]

Or get a power supply tester if you don't have a multimeter.

 

[Raptor45]

Turns out the PSU took out the CPU when it died. I put in the new CPU along with a replacement PSU, and everything seems to be running fine.

 

[Saiyukimot]

Ooo, bet your glad

The motherboard was ok?