Need Advice On a Few Power Supplys

[cragfin]

By not boot I mean nothing will come on the screen stays black, the power supply will not turn on, fans will not turn, only two lights between the memory slots blink/beep & from reading the manual the problem is either a graphics card error or an power error, but the thing that confuses me is that the two lights (of which there are four) are the cpu phase load, my friend seems to have every thing plugged in right, so would that mean that the problem is most likely the power supply or something else?

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: cragfin
but the thing that confuses me is that the two lights (of which there are four) are the cpu phase load, my friend seems to have every thing plugged in right, so would that mean that the problem is most likely the power supply or something else?

Have him remove every card in the case, except for the video card. Then have him unplug all of the drives, to make sure that he isn't overpowering that 450 watt PSU. And definitely have him remove all but one stick of RAM. These are the basic steps to troubleshooting any no post situation, before going any farther.

BTW, have either of these people ever built a PC before? It's not nearly as hard as Joe Sixpack would think, to kill a motherboard or video card, because of ESD.

 

[BassBomb]

I just built an ASUS P5K-E system for a friend with E8400 and it was supported right away.

For your board I think you will need to update the bios. Just because it was purchased much later does not mean it came with the updated revision

You should also have an 8 pin connector near the CPU. If the motherboard has a spacer to block the extra 4 pins, remove it and place the 8pin connector

 

[cragfin]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: cragfin
but the thing that confuses me is that the two lights (of which there are four) are the cpu phase load, my friend seems to have every thing plugged in right, so would that mean that the problem is most likely the power supply or something else?

Have him remove every card in the case, except for the video card. Then have him unplug all of the drives, to make sure that he isn't overpowering that 450 watt PSU. And definitely have him remove all but one stick of RAM. These are the basic steps to troubleshooting any no post situation, before going any farther.

BTW, have either of these people ever built a PC before? It's not nearly as hard as Joe Sixpack would think, to kill a motherboard or video card, because of ESD.

I have talked with his brother & it turns out that his brother hired (for $80.00) some old guy from some tech store to put it to together, he then told his brother that he had put it to together, after talking with the "tech guy" I am convinced other then selling parts he had no experience in putting a computer together (or at the very least no knowledge of newer parts), he missed simple things like grounding him self to the computer, didn't even know what a bios was, nor that the dvd drive was sata until my friend's brother told him, & apparently he jammed the graphics card because when he took off the pci holder on the back of the case he couldn't get it back in easly so he applied force & then it went in (my friend's brother heard a bang when he did it), so I am going to loan my friend the money to take it to some one who knows what they are doing, I have only put together one pc in the past & didn't have any problems doing it, and do not feel comfortable touching his pc with the problems he has been having with it, as for the power supply being overloaded I was thinking if it is the power supply then that could be an alternative reason (other then the power supply being DOA), 450watt (no disrespect to "mpilchfamily") just never seemed like a good number, it seemed too boarderline (which is why I kept asking if 450watt would be enough). I cautioned my friend againest it but he didn't want to go with the 550watt model, even if it was only $20.00 more to much more for him, now he will spend $200-$250 (counting the money he already gave that old guy, plus the money he owes me, & possibly having to ship something back) getting it fixed.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: cragfin
I have talked with his brother & it turns out that his brother hired (for $80.00) some old guy from some tech store to put it to together, he then told his brother that he had put it to together, after talking with the "tech guy" I am convinced other then selling parts he had no experience in putting a computer together (or at the very least no knowledge of newer parts), he missed simple things like grounding him self to the computer, didn't even know what a bios was, nor that the dvd drive was sata until my friend's brother told him, & apparently he jammed the graphics card because when he took off the pci holder on the back of the case he couldn't get it back in easly so he applied force & then it went in (my friend's brother heard a bang when he did it), so I am going to loan my friend the money to take it to some one who knows what they are doing, I have only put together one pc in the past & didn't have any problems doing it, and do not feel comfortable touching his pc with the problems he has been having with it, as for the power supply being overloaded I was thinking if it is the power supply then that could be an alternative reason (other then the power supply being DOA), 450watt (no disrespect to "mpilchfamily") just never seemed like a good number, it seemed too boarderline (which is why I kept asking if 450watt would be enough). I cautioned my friend againest it but he didn't want to go with the 550watt model, even if it was only $20.00 more to much more for him, now he will spend $200-$250 (counting the money he already gave that old guy, plus the money he owes me, & possibly having to ship something back) getting it fixed.

Well, that's definitely unfortunate, but thanks for letting us know. And yeah, he definitely should have went with the 550 watt version, if for no other reason than the fact that the less percentage of a PSU's power you use, the longer they seem to last (as long as they were a quality unit to begin with, that is).

 

[cragfin]

Hi, my friend has his pc up & running, turns out that the guy who put it together first short circuited it, he used the wrong kind of screwdriver, thanks for all the help.