Ok so this is what happened.
I went for a road trip from California to Ohio last week. Actually I moved from the first state to the latter. It's winter season as you guys know. So, a couple of days ago when I got my apartment and settled in, the CPU didn't come on when I switched it. So, I thought the PSU must have gone kaput because of static. I then bought a new PSU yesterday, installed it and it ran! but it didn't go past the HDD detection screen. It dies everytime it goes to HDD detection screen. So, I was wondering if it's something wrong with the motherboard. It's a little hard to detect where the problem. What I usually do when my computer dies is go to Fry's and 'borrow' what I think is broken and whatever I don't need I return it later. It's a little difficult to do that now is as no stores in Midwest is going to like accept returns without charging extra.
Anyway, does anyone has any idea what might have happened to my computer? I'm afraid of static might have spoilt everything. As usual, I start just with video card, but it just dies even with just the video card installed. Here are the specs btw, they are about 2 yrs old:
MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR MS-6590
Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83Ghz 333Mhz FSB
Radeon 9700SE 128MB
512MB Kingston DDR333 RAM
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
I went for a road trip from California to Ohio last week. Actually I moved from the first state to the latter. It's winter season as you guys know. So, a couple of days ago when I got my apartment and settled in, the CPU didn't come on when I switched it. So, I thought the PSU must have gone kaput because of static. I then bought a new PSU yesterday, installed it and it ran! but it didn't go past the HDD detection screen. It dies everytime it goes to HDD detection screen. So, I was wondering if it's something wrong with the motherboard. It's a little hard to detect where the problem. What I usually do when my computer dies is go to Fry's and 'borrow' what I think is broken and whatever I don't need I return it later. It's a little difficult to do that now is as no stores in Midwest is going to like accept returns without charging extra.
Anyway, does anyone has any idea what might have happened to my computer? I'm afraid of static might have spoilt everything. As usual, I start just with video card, but it just dies even with just the video card installed. Here are the specs btw, they are about 2 yrs old:
MSI KT4 Ultra-FISR MS-6590
Athlon XP 2500+ 1.83Ghz 333Mhz FSB
Radeon 9700SE 128MB
512MB Kingston DDR333 RAM
Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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