finshed playing Arma last night and my pc went bang !! and now won't boot.
power seems fine as it powers up but it doesn't do anything else, tried reseting the cmos but no joy.
will have another look tonight, but i'm fearing the worst :sad:
might be ofline for a while :sideways:
Unlucky m8:sad:
Mine went bang a few weeks ago so you have my sympathy.
Hopefully you can figure out what the problem is quickly.
Bad luck mate.
Any idea what it was that went bang if it wasn't the PSU? Checked your GFX card?
Quote from: delankster;301298finshed playing Arma last night and my pc went bang !! and now won't boot.
power seems fine as it powers up but it doesn't do anything else, tried reseting the cmos but no joy.
will have another look tonight, but i'm fearing the worst :sad:
might be ofline for a while :sideways:
Was Armitage anywhere near it?
Good luck mate.
lol - na arm was nowhere to be seen
hopefully its not the gfx card as its only 8 months old, but then again i have been folding alot lately so i suppose its possible.
only tried a few things last night, will try swapping the gfx tonight when i get in :)
If you heard something go bang, you will most likely smell it or see it (blown chips etc), PSU's tend to go bang more than anything else :sad:
Good luck mate!
update:
forgot that i sold my old gfx card so unable to swap to test it :doh:
memory swapped same problem, tried starting it with no memory and i seem to recall you should get a beep from the mobo to say that theres no memory ... but no beep :sideways: starting to think the mobo's fried.
will try and source a gfx card to eliminate that, and will bring home a tester to test the psu
but other than that i'm outta ideas
any thoughts chaps?
I've had PSUs fail and they seem to power up but drives don't spin up or boot. So it may be worth trying another PSU.
Otherwise it could be a disk failure? Do you have another disk you can try?
you could try looking out for blown capacitors on the Motherboard and graphics to see if it's anything obvious, e.g.
Note that some might looked 'raised' / 'expanded' rather than cracked, they all should be flat, but this is just on the off chance.
Well I don't know what you've been doing Kev, but my PC has gone Kaput too!
I think its a mixture of PSU and GFX, unfortunately I don't have a spare of either. GFX is just within its 1 year warranty period (like 2 weeks within it).
So you lucky people, I'll be around the forums but won't be on the servers :(
You should get some beeps if you start it without a GFX as well, have you tried that. Is beginning to sound like the mobo but Ive never heard of one go pop before, maybe your PSU popped and took your mobo out.....
Can't see any burn marks or blown capacitors on mobo or gfx, so fingers crossed its just the psu, tried without gfx and no beep either ??
will test psu 2mora
would have thought that a disk failure it would atleast show up as a boot failure on screen ?
cheers for all the Help chaps :thumbsup2:
Quote from: delankster;301383would have thought that a disk failure it would atleast show up as a boot failure on screen ?
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Disk Failure you'll get the bios screen, a pause while it looks for drives and then a failure to boot notification. 9 times out of 10 complete failure to do anything is PSU, the other 1 is mobo/ram/cpu/graphics (in roughly that sort of order from when I've had things die)
Had a power supply die two days ago on a uni machine. Very unspectacular, just no effort to boot, no pops, bangs etc. I prefer when there's a sign, but having replaced it the PSU was definitely the culprit as the computer works fine now. Fingers crossed it's something simple.
PSU tested and is putting out the right volts on the 12v, 5v and 3.3v rails
looking more and more like the mobo :sideways:
What voltages (and more importantly current) are you getting from your PSU?
Also what rating is (i.e. 450W, etc)?
Reasons for the questions - my PC appears to power up, but I get no output from the GFX, even though the GFX is getting power (I know this as the fan works on the GFX). I initially thought it was the GFX (and its getting RMA'd tomorrow) or the PSU, as I'd been having some oddities with the PC BSOD'ing once logging in to Windows after changing the HDD and PSU.
Once it loads correctly, the PC was nice and stable until last night when I got no output from the GFX...
Any thoughts?
PS, sorry to hijack your thread Kev, but your problems appear very similar to mine :(
the PSU is 600w. as it all tested (http://www.ochardware.com/articles/psuvolt/psuvolt.html) out ok i'm now onto the gfx card if that tests out ok then i think its safe to say its the motherboard or cpu either way its upgrade time. :sideways:
:Yes: sounds almost identical m8, what specs are you running?
AMD 64 x2 (4200), 2GB RAM, 1TB SATA HDD (new), 600W PSU (new-ish!), PowerColor HD4670 GFX (1 year old)
Not a happy bunny - I've RMA'd the GFX and if its a "No Fault Found" I'll get charged :(
And am not looking forward to having to explain upgrades to SWMBO!
graphics card tested and working fine . So looks like its the mobo and cpu :(
So i'm after a new board and chip , anyone recomend the i7's ?
I'm a little confused (not hard i know) about the i5's & i3's or is it worth the extra money for the i7's
I was running a dual core so if i'm spending money i would like a decent jump in performance :)
Any advice ?
All this talk of new PCs, has got me looking around - I may have to sell my soul to SWMBO, but hey....
What do you think of this:
QuoteIntel i5 750 Quad Core Processor
4096MB OCZ DDR III Memory
Asus nVidia GTX260 Graphics with DVI & HDMI
1TB Samsung F3 SATA II Hard Drive
22x Multi Format DVD/CD ReWriter
Internal multi-card reader
5.1 HD Surround Sound
Includes Windows 7 Home Premium, and would be mine for Ã,£699.95 inc VAT....
From here (http://shop.op3.co.uk/pages/Products.aspx?prodSku=OP3-CN-01-BK)
:dribble: very nice, quite tempted myself
I would stick to the i5 and i7's, them seem to have a decent jump over it's predecessors, Kreg mentioned that he built a i5 that was close in performance to a i720, so there might be a saving in going to a i5?
Motherboard wise, might be worth looking at one that supports DDR3, I think the prices have dropped, but not looked in while, might be worth investigating :g:
Quote from: target;301605All this talk of new PCs, has got me looking around - I may have to sell my soul to SWMBO, but hey....
What do you think of this:
QuoteIntel i5 750 Quad Core Processor
4096MB OCZ DDR III Memory
Asus nVidia GTX260 Graphics with DVI & HDMI
1TB Samsung F3 SATA II Hard Drive
22x Multi Format DVD/CD ReWriter
Internal multi-card reader
5.1 HD Surround Sound
Includes Windows 7 Home Premium, and would be mine for Ã,£699.95 inc VAT....
From here (http://shop.op3.co.uk/pages/Products.aspx?prodSku=OP3-CN-01-BK)
Well she ain't going to be happy when my new toy arrives. Went for this setup :) :woot2:
nice :)
my bits turn up 2mora :yahoo:
i5 750 Quad core processor
4 gb OCZ DDR3 Memory
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
similar setup
can't wait to try :D
Quote from: delankster;301911nice :)
my bits turn up 2mora :yahoo:
i5 750 Quad core processor
4 gb OCZ DDR3 Memory
Gigabyte GA-P55A-UD3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
similar setup
can't wait to try :D
You should have that done by 7, in time for some Arma!
Quote from: Benny;301919You should have that done by 7, in time for some Arma!
hopefully :yahoo: