I just moved to a new apartment, and I transported my home built PC. When I set it up at my new place, it would not boot up. There would be a quick surge of power (the fans would speed up for 1/2 a second), followed by nothing. No POST beep, and the fans turned off.
I took everything out of the case, and tried booting up the computer on a wooden bench with no case with just the PSU, Motherboard, cpu, ram, and video card. The same quick surge of power happened when I turned the power on.
I was able to keep the power on permanetly under one condition. If I removed the video card and unplugged the auxiliary power to the CPU. Only then could I turn on and keep the power on. I tested another video card that I know works, and had the same problem, so it is not the video card.
I think the problem is with the motherboard or the power supply. I RMA'ed the motherboard once. I was very careful as to not bang or shake my PC during the move. It worked minutes before the move.
Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions before I start RMA'ing parts and waiting for the mail every day
Thank you!
My specs:
RAM: OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600 Dual Channel
MOBO: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO 790X AM3 RT
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W
VC: VGA HIS|H585F1GDG HD5850 1G
PSU: Mushkin Enhanced 550200 550W ATX12V SLI Ready Modular
I took everything out of the case, and tried booting up the computer on a wooden bench with no case with just the PSU, Motherboard, cpu, ram, and video card. The same quick surge of power happened when I turned the power on.
I was able to keep the power on permanetly under one condition. If I removed the video card and unplugged the auxiliary power to the CPU. Only then could I turn on and keep the power on. I tested another video card that I know works, and had the same problem, so it is not the video card.
I think the problem is with the motherboard or the power supply. I RMA'ed the motherboard once. I was very careful as to not bang or shake my PC during the move. It worked minutes before the move.
Does anybody have any ideas or suggestions before I start RMA'ing parts and waiting for the mail every day
Thank you!
My specs:
RAM: OCZ Platinum 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM 1600 Dual Channel
MOBO: ASUS M4A79XTD EVO 790X AM3 RT
CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W
VC: VGA HIS|H585F1GDG HD5850 1G
PSU: Mushkin Enhanced 550200 550W ATX12V SLI Ready Modular