Something Happened to My Baby

[styroe]

Well, I like to give myself a nice reinstall every now and then out of sheer boredom (the windows guys in india hate me) and I was doing my usually thing for school. I was in the midst of installing my printer, and as it tells me to plug in USB, it just goes black. I have taken out everything to see if it would power. It hasn't. The only things connected are the cpu, fans, and mobo. All drives have been unplugged and all cards have been taken out with the same result. The result is: Push power button, flicker of fans off and then on and nothing is started. The green light on the front flickers for a second just like the fans and cuts out... obviously no power running through the darn thing. If I press this button again, absolutely nothing, I have to either unplug it or flick the switch on the back just so I can get the power to flicker again. What I really don't get is that the green light on the mobo stays lit (except where I flick the switch in the bag or unplug it).

My Rig:
P4P800E Deluxe Mobo (Asus)
P4 Prescott 3.0 Ghz (unclocked)
4 512gb Value Ram (note: ram has been removed and unclocked)
XFX 6900GT Nvidia 256mb(Removed and unclocked)
200g Maxtor Diamond 10 PATA(Removed)
Liteon DVD-RW
Generic CD-RW
PSU: XClio Greatpower 500watt X14S4P3 (Here is webby since its kinda uncommon: hxxp://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16817189012)

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Could just be the switch itself. Wait........you got these problems because you were bored? Call a friend and ask them to smack you upside the head and then you are not allowed to touch a computer for at least a month. I laugh in front of your back. Now, go away or I will taunt you again.

 

[btcomm1]

Like you sugested, it sounds like it could be a power supply or a mobo. Do you have another power supply you could test? If you test a known good PSU and it does the same thing then check your motherboard for bulding or oozing capcitors. If you have any of those then it's prob your motherboard.