Must have fried something..?

[xenophile]

So, in the process of plugging things into the back of my newly built machine, I accidentally bumped the power cord just enough so that it cut the power, but not enough to actually knock it out. Now on boot up - black screen.

Pretty much I have no way of testing anything other than the ram since it's a lot newer hardware than my previous comp. I swapped out the 3 gigs of ram and had no luck. Running sli on an asus M2N32-SLI premium with an amd 6000.

Anyone have any advice so that I'm not sending back the motherboard AND the cpu for replacement? Or maybe there's something I can do to salvage the situation. Figures...computer is running for a day and I break it.

 

[Cutthroat]

I doubt you actually fried anything by unplugging the power cord. It's certainly not good for it, but I would expect something more like data corruption, not physical damage. Does it POST, do you get any beeps?

 

[xenophile]

No post at all.... just a black screen. Fans spin, motherboard light comes on, seems like something is dead.

I checked around the atx connector no blackness or anything..

It seems stupid that having the cord kinda linger on the contacts would screw things up but it definitely did something bad.

 

[JustaGeek]

Check with another Power Suply - maybe you just killed the PSU...?

 

[xenophile]

So, I just tried another power supply (a few years old) and it didnt have any support for pci-e video cards obviously...so I just plugged it into the board and powered on.

Then comes the scream from the motherboard, a continuous loud blood curling siren.

what now lol

 

[xenophile]

Ahh sweet I fixed it..

I have absolutely no idea why the power cord screwed anything up, but I reset the cmos and it runs fine now.

..yeah, no idea wtf that was all about.

Thanks for the input though!