shocky123

Well, I'm pretty sure my power supply died last night. Hrmm, I should put htis in the SSS/NSS section too, I have a paper I'm publishing on Monday and this happens uggh lol. Anyways, I had just rebooted windows and about 3 or 4 minutes later, the computer just shut off. I havent been able to get it to turn back on.

My question is.... when I push the power button, no response, nothing.. no lights, no led's on the nic, nothing at all, there clearly is no power to the motherboard.

However, when I remove the power cord from the psu, I sort of hear a clicking/electrical sound, which generally means I just quasi-shorted or pissed off something that had juice going through/into it..
Hopefully that is enough to describe the sound.. it's sorta like static-discharge'ish sound, but w/ a power cord. Anyways, that's not an uncommon sound when dealing with power units, but that usually is a good sound, i.e. there's juice flowing somwehre.

If the psu is dead, is there anything I can do to test it out short of plug in another psu to see if its the mobo that died?

thanks,
~Kyle

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Markel

I always keep a spare $20 power supply around for situations like this - I can plug it into the MB and hard drive and test away. If it works, I leave it in until I can get a good replacement.

From your description, though, my first suspect would be the power supply.

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redcolours

yeah, change it right away. if you dont, theres a very good chance that next to die will be your mobo, HDD, VGA card, RAM or all of them.
death by electrocution!

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shocky123

So... after further testing w/ my 'spare' 550W Antec (borrowed from storage @ work lol)
I've established that not only was my psu just fine.. but indeed my motherboard is fried.. fried not like chicken, fried like umm.... it trips something in the antec psu when I plug it in, it gets real pissed off lol.
So yeah, now to start the lovely snail-mail RMA process that gigabyte is perfect at... (2-3 week turnaround time.. great..)
Did I mention finals are in a week? aarrggghhhhh, I _do_ have papers and stuff due, guess I'll just bring a sleeping bag to work or something lol.

~Kyle

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Gigabyte is horrible.. I RMA'ed a friends mobo who is now in Iraq. Its more than a month and half and they still havnt shipped it. I am not in an hurry or is my friend but it just shows how long they take.