It's dead. The PC that is. Upon pressing the switch nothing happens. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) this can only be due to a faulty PSU or a totally dead motherboard. Or the button itself. This last option seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Anyhow, does the PSU fan spin if the motherboard is dead? Because appartently the on/off switch goes through the board to give the signal to the PSU. Could it thus be mobo's fault?
I intend to try running it with a borrowed PSU - the easiest and fastest way to determine the culprit.
There is no smell coming from it. As a matter of fact I did replace my old gfx card with an r9 270x 4gb. It's certainly more power hungry than the old gts 250.
My budget is becoming dangerously strained with all these unexpected failures happening. I wonder what's going to fail next. HDD? RAM?
Does your new card happen to require more watts than your old one?
If so I'd up how many watts everything in your pc requires and check how many your psu can provide.
well your right that if the motherboard is dead dead your pcu won't switch on.
You could hotwire your pcu to switch if it not plug into your motherboard or use a power meter but since your getting a backup pcu to test that fine or
and unless you got alot of stuff e.g fan hdd and other 750w good so it not lack of power
It's dead. The PC that is. Upon pressing the switch nothing happens. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) this can only be due to a faulty PSU or a totally dead motherboard. Or the button itself. This last option seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Anyhow, does the PSU fan spin if the motherboard is dead? Because appartently the on/off switch goes through the board to give the signal to the PSU. Could it thus be mobo's fault?
I intend to try running it with a borrowed PSU - the easiest and fastest way to determine the culprit.
The PSU's fan works independent of the motherboard--If you have a damaged motherboard theres components that could still be working (like lights displaying, etc.)
Chances are if you replace the motherboard it could fix the issue, but it wouldnt hurt to replace the PSU as well. Worst comes to worst and the issue occurs again after the replacement of both, it could be the processor fried out too (CPU).
I use to have an AMD Athlon Thunderbird CPU w/ an ABIT NF7-s 462(A) Mobo, worked great for 3 months (played BF1942 without any issues)--One day I turned the power on and it turned off immediately, followed by it ceasing to power on. Upon further investigation inside I found that the CPU chip actually broke in half (diagonally across the entire chip) which was from a faulty PSU which couldnt take a power surge one night (although it was plugged into a UPS).
Long story short, it could be the PSU, the Motherboard, or even the CPU.
The cheapest option depending on how new the PSU/Mobo would be is to buy the cheapest of those first, try to replace that part and see if you get the same results, if not go from there and get the next item (leave the CPU for last).
If you lived in MN I could check it out at the shop, I fix computers for a living and we have spare parts for testing like this case
i guessed it was an upgrade and yes it looks like your gfx card caused it
but be careful!!!
its not JUST the psu wattage, its the AMPS on the 12v rails, you can have a 1000w psu but if not enough amps itll still pop
your psu was ok for a month and just popped because it couldnt take the amps drawn
hopefully there wasnt a powersurge as sometime when psu's blow it kicks out a surge, if your motherboard is a good one then it might not of damaged anything else
It's dead. The PC that is. Upon pressing the switch nothing happens. I think (correct me if I'm wrong) this can only be due to a faulty PSU or a totally dead motherboard. Or the button itself. This last option seems a bit far-fetched to me.
Anyhow, does the PSU fan spin if the motherboard is dead? Because appartently the on/off switch goes through the board to give the signal to the PSU. Could it thus be mobo's fault?
I intend to try running it with a borrowed PSU - the easiest and fastest way to determine the culprit.
Yes, do that first before you do anything else.
Check it out with a borrowed PSU I mean.
Make sure that the PSU you borrow is at least as big as the one you have, bigger for preference.
If that doesn't work, put your old graphics card back in and see if the PC comes back to life, then you will know for sure that it's your gfx card causing the problems.
