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23 Oct 2012, 5:22 am

Hey everyone!
Today my first ever machine I built wayyy back in 09 has died today :( .
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AMD Phenom I x4 @ 2.6
GTS 250 1GB
800Watt Atrix PSU 80+
ECS 2000 Motherboard

The PSU light switch is on but I cant turn on the machine at all with the on button. Not even the ethernet light is flashing (the ethernet light is always on when the machine is off) which tells me the issue is related to either the PSU or the motherboard.
It was just fine last night I had no issues what so ever....
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23 Oct 2012, 5:30 am

It sounds like there was some trauma to the motherboard which is causing an open (non) connection or a shorted connection. Did any foreign object happen to get in there? Or could it be the "tin whiskers" which caused a satellite to go awry and a nuclear power plant to shut down?



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23 Oct 2012, 5:32 am

BobinPgh wrote:
It sounds like there was some trauma to the motherboard which is causing an open (non) connection or a shorted connection. Did any foreign object happen to get in there? Or could it be the "tin whiskers" which caused a satellite to go awry and a nuclear power plant to shut down?

:lol:

I did fail hotswap an old HDD the other day... It just turned off and I turned it back on again and it was working fine. This was 6 days ago (I know, hotswapping is stupid).
There is a screw at the bottom of the case but I think its never touched a component so that cant be it.


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23 Oct 2012, 7:44 am

Madbones wrote:
BobinPgh wrote:
It sounds like there was some trauma to the motherboard which is causing an open (non) connection or a shorted connection. Did any foreign object happen to get in there? Or could it be the "tin whiskers" which caused a satellite to go awry and a nuclear power plant to shut down?

:lol:

I did fail hotswap an old HDD the other day... It just turned off and I turned it back on again and it was working fine. This was 6 days ago (I know, hotswapping is stupid).
There is a screw at the bottom of the case but I think its never touched a component so that cant be it.


Hotswapping isn't dumb - hotswapping without a chassis/board that supports it is dumb. Sounds like you fried your board.


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23 Oct 2012, 7:45 am

I thought so too!
I just went to unplug it and I thought I would try to turn it on once more... It then just happened to fire up!
Woop!
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23 Oct 2012, 7:49 am

Madbones wrote:
I thought so too!
I just went to unplug it and I thought I would try to turn it on once more... It then just happened to fire up!
Woop!
:D


Then your PSU faulted for some reason. Could be indicative of a problem, or it could be a one-time fluke. When a PSU senses something not good on the input or output, it faults, shuts down, and won't turn back on until a power drain is performed.


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23 Oct 2012, 7:50 am

sliqua-jcooter wrote:
Madbones wrote:
I thought so too!
I just went to unplug it and I thought I would try to turn it on once more... It then just happened to fire up!
Woop!
:D


Then your PSU faulted for some reason. Could be indicative of a problem, or it could be a one-time fluke. When a PSU senses something not good on the input or output, it faults, shuts down, and won't turn back on until a power drain is performed.

Ahh... I dont know if this has anything to do with it but I did give it one hell of a shaking to see if there was something below the board that was shorting it or something.


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23 Oct 2012, 12:34 pm

PSU and/or motherboard... hopefully it was a one-time event but I'd prepare for future failures.

The good news is you can re-use the CPU and new DDR3 is super cheap... if it comes to that.