PC Fubar !!!

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delankster

January 11, 2010, 09:54:19 AM
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:
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Blunt

#1
January 11, 2010, 10:49:32 AM
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.
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OldBloke

#2
January 11, 2010, 10:54:43 AM
Bad luck mate.

Any idea what it was that went bang if it wasn't the PSU? Checked your GFX card?
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Benny

#3
January 11, 2010, 11:32:56 AM
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?


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delankster

#4
January 11, 2010, 01:07:28 PM
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 :)
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Snokio

#5
January 11, 2010, 06:49:11 PM
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!
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delankster

#6
January 11, 2010, 07:03:40 PM
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?
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Sn00ks

#7
January 11, 2010, 07:09:52 PM
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?
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#8
January 11, 2010, 07:46:55 PM
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.
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target

#9
January 11, 2010, 09:11:00 PM
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 :(
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#10
January 11, 2010, 09:21:06 PM
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.....
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delankster

#11
January 11, 2010, 09:45:54 PM
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:
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T-Bag

#12
January 11, 2010, 11:15:29 PM
Quote from: delankster;301383would have thought that a disk failure it would atleast show up as a boot failure on screen ?
:

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.
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delankster

#13
January 12, 2010, 06:33:36 PM
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:
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target

#14
January 12, 2010, 07:41:30 PM
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 :(
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