[SOLVED] PSU failed, might have taken out Mobo, and drives?
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Do you have a larger output PSU to exchange with the 435W? You have sized the power requirements for the system?
Symptoms act as if power related.
the failing 435W Enermax was ditched for a Corsair HX750W unit.
The problem wasn't so much solved as it was changed. Now my problem is I need to buy a new CPU/Motherboard/Memory combo... excuse to upgrade I guess, just sad to waste that DDR memory.
the failing 435W Enermax was ditched for a Corsair HX750W unit.
The problem wasn't so much solved as it was changed. Now my problem is I need to buy a new CPU/Motherboard/Memory combo... excuse to upgrade I guess, just sad to waste that DDR memory.
I have this strange feeling that if you stripped back to basics (Known good ram, best video card, one hdd) things would work. Then you could add back step by step, and see where the problems started. Something you are taking as good is crap. You might save yourself the pain (and expense) of shopping.
Periodically here, they run collections for rubbish too large for the bins. My youngest son once brought home a PC from one, which someone had left out to be dumped, and threw it on my workbench(I was in electronics). He had a p4-1.7Ghz, w/256Megs of ram, ms works & xp, and an 80 gig hard disk. Respectable for the time, and somebody had just thrown it out because the psu died.
I have this strange feeling that if you stripped back to basics (Known good ram, best video card, one hdd) things would work. Then you could add back step by step, and see where the problems started. Something you are taking as good is crap. You might save yourself the pain (and expense) of shopping.
Periodically here, they run collections for rubbish too large for the bins. My youngest son once brought home a PC from one, which someone had left out to be dumped, and threw it on my workbench(I was in electronics). He had a p4-1.7Ghz, w/256Megs of ram, ms works & xp, and an 80 gig hard disk. Respectable for the time, and somebody had just thrown it out because the psu died.
Agreed, 100%. Its pretty rare for everything to die when the psu blows.
BTW, the council here sometimes has what they call 'kerbside collection', where people can throw out old funiture/white goods, things like that. I used to get some nice stuff from that, though the last few years its been overrun with people picking up literally everything that isnt complete junk....and a lot of stuff that is junk. Somebody even took the box I threw out with very visibly damaged motherboards (burnt and snapped, no CPUs, no RAM, not even chipset heatsinks, so anyone could tell they were useless).
Still, I managed to find a P4D that somebody had gone crazy on. Motherboard and heatsink had been beaten with a hammer, RAM sticks snapped. But the idiot who threw it out hadnt touched the HDD, it wasnt wiped..there was still limewire and some d/led MP3s on there. I also pulled a nice thermaltake 430watt PSU.
That PSU and HDD are running now in a system that 'blew' and was thrown out (not from kerbside collection, but thats a long story). The only thing that was bad was the PSU (skyhawk is dodgy) and 1 of the 2 RAM sticks.
You marked the threads as [Solved]. Care to share what was done to fix the situation?
great news,
I yanked the audio card, sata expansion card, and the 2 GB of memory from Corsair that were new. I am typing from a stable install of Kubuntu 10.10.
I'm slowly gaining some trust with it, but it probably was one of those 3 components. Thanks for sticking with it and convincing me to not give up on this box.
Buying new stuff is an addiction, only vendors and manufacturers profit.
Now you saved a few bucks you can take your time and figure out which toy is next.
Buying new stuff is an addiction, only vendors and manufacturers profit.
Now you saved a few bucks you can take your time and figure out which toy is next.
hey, if you can get paid for what you do with that new stuff it's all good. Besides INTC is looking cheap right ?
what is strange is, I am stable now... and even if I use either 2GB sticks and added all the other hardware I am stable.
My problem is when the two sticks run together perhaps...? that's too bad because I really need 4GB to feel comfortable on this system running computations. Again, if you're ever in the south bay I owe you guys a coffee/tea/adult beverage
I have a machine that has 1 bad memory slot as long as I don't install any memory to that particular slot it boots, basically the mobo is no good or damaged. I've tried with different memory same results.
My question is have you narrowed it down to whether or 1 slot may be bad instead of memory?
I have a machine that has 1 bad memory slot as long as I don't install any memory to that particular slot it boots, basically the mobo is no good or damaged. I've tried with different memory same results.
My question is have you narrowed it down to whether or 1 slot may be bad instead of memory?
I've ordered 2 MORE sticks of the same memory and given the 2GB originally in my rig to my parents PC (they went from 256MB to 2GB haha) .. I am hoping I don't have your problem and it's just the mismatched versions, but you're causing me to have doubts .. I'll let you know either way how it posts. Thanks
One Reason I am sketchy is it started working when I moved either two sticks to my previously unused slots.. I bet the slot fried when the PSU got overloaded huh..
Last edited by hwy9nightkid; 03-17-2011 at 09:00 PM.
well this sucks, slot #2 froze with a new stick in it.. #1,3,4 perform flawlessly. Now I'll just return these 2GB and put one of the original version 6.x sticks from corsairs in it's place I guess.
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