jinshomaru
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'm having several problems with my studio 540 that i just purchased in 2009.
I turned my computer off one night and the next it refused to turn on..nothing at all, no lights although the psu light was lit on the back of the computer. I called dell and my warranty had just run out!! They recommended a new motherboard. I got a refurbished board and computer still wouldnt turn on. The tech that came out said its probably the psu so i got an old psu from another computer and everything worked fine. The tech and i figured that the motherboard was good all along so i saved my old one. The fan stopped working in the psu that i have now but its still powering my system. i just bought a corsair tx 650 modular from amazon. Get it home and it wont boot my system. The cpu fan spins, the case fan spins then stops, a solid amber light appears on the front of the computer, the monitor wont display anything.
Do i have just a bad psu and i should return it to amazon?? I know its not the board because i tested both boards with my old psu and everything works fine with it.
any advice on a better psu or should i try to buy another corsair?
Also my processor i think is running to high..i downloaded the support center program and it shows temps of about 60c for all 4 cores with the first core running a little hotter. i then downloaded realtemp 3.6 and i averaging about 55 just doing basic stuff like posting here. I think i may need to install some grease on my processor since when i removed the heatsink there was crud on the part of the heatsink that touches the processor and the top of the processor that shows the model number is gone. if i got some ne grease ould that bring my processor temps back don to normal?
i have intel core 2 quad core q9400 processor
ati radeon 3650 256mb
nothing else added to the system though i do use my 32 inch tv as my monitor and its connected via hdmi to my graphics card
any help would be appreciated
-Byron
I turned my computer off one night and the next it refused to turn on..nothing at all, no lights although the psu light was lit on the back of the computer. I called dell and my warranty had just run out!! They recommended a new motherboard. I got a refurbished board and computer still wouldnt turn on. The tech that came out said its probably the psu so i got an old psu from another computer and everything worked fine. The tech and i figured that the motherboard was good all along so i saved my old one. The fan stopped working in the psu that i have now but its still powering my system. i just bought a corsair tx 650 modular from amazon. Get it home and it wont boot my system. The cpu fan spins, the case fan spins then stops, a solid amber light appears on the front of the computer, the monitor wont display anything.
Do i have just a bad psu and i should return it to amazon?? I know its not the board because i tested both boards with my old psu and everything works fine with it.
any advice on a better psu or should i try to buy another corsair?
Also my processor i think is running to high..i downloaded the support center program and it shows temps of about 60c for all 4 cores with the first core running a little hotter. i then downloaded realtemp 3.6 and i averaging about 55 just doing basic stuff like posting here. I think i may need to install some grease on my processor since when i removed the heatsink there was crud on the part of the heatsink that touches the processor and the top of the processor that shows the model number is gone. if i got some ne grease ould that bring my processor temps back don to normal?
i have intel core 2 quad core q9400 processor
ati radeon 3650 256mb
nothing else added to the system though i do use my 32 inch tv as my monitor and its connected via hdmi to my graphics card
any help would be appreciated
-Byron