My mate is here with his PC which appears to have been foobarred after he installed a new Thermaltake Butterfly 480W PSU.
First, newish HDD stopped responding, and appears to be dead as it won't detect in another computer. Then a 3 pin fan connector on the motherboard died. After troubleshooting (to discover the dead 3 pin fan connector), the PC now won't post (no beep, no signal to monitor).
It won't post with nothing but the RAM and video card in. The lights on the motherboard go on, and the fan on the video card spins
It is not the video card (5200) or AGP port as we have stuck in a working MX400 and old 4 MB S3 PCI card into the board and it still doesn't post.
Have put the old PSU back in with just the video card and RAM and again it is not posting. Have cleared CMOS too.
He is running:
MSI 865PE/G Neo2LS motherboard
P4 2.4 (800 FSB)
2 x 512 MB Kingmax DDR 3200 (dual channel)
Given the HDD and 3 pin connector have died, he is concerned that the new PSU is damaging stuff. Nothing smells burnt, doesn't appear to be the Mobo shorting as the fans are going. Any ideas anybody?
Thanks heaps for your help.
First, newish HDD stopped responding, and appears to be dead as it won't detect in another computer. Then a 3 pin fan connector on the motherboard died. After troubleshooting (to discover the dead 3 pin fan connector), the PC now won't post (no beep, no signal to monitor).
It won't post with nothing but the RAM and video card in. The lights on the motherboard go on, and the fan on the video card spins
It is not the video card (5200) or AGP port as we have stuck in a working MX400 and old 4 MB S3 PCI card into the board and it still doesn't post.
Have put the old PSU back in with just the video card and RAM and again it is not posting. Have cleared CMOS too.
He is running:
MSI 865PE/G Neo2LS motherboard
P4 2.4 (800 FSB)
2 x 512 MB Kingmax DDR 3200 (dual channel)
Given the HDD and 3 pin connector have died, he is concerned that the new PSU is damaging stuff. Nothing smells burnt, doesn't appear to be the Mobo shorting as the fans are going. Any ideas anybody?
Thanks heaps for your help.