I am just wondering all of the evil things a power supply can do when it goes bad? Is it possible for a dead psu to make a computer not post? I don't know a lot about computers and don't understand the watt/amp/volt thing. I think my 250w psu died but I can't know for sure. I checked the Sandra thing Saturday and the amps/volts/whatever they are were slightly higher than their rating even when the computer was nearly idle.
Yesterday I went to play a game at 2:00. It was on maybe 10 minutes, went to load into another zone but it never finished loading. After serveral minutes I decided it froze and powered off the computer and powered it back on. It won't even post now but the cpu and case fans start up. The case felt hot where the psu is so I determined it must be the root of all evils. I really have no other scientific way of knowing it's the problem other than knowing 250w sucks and that it was hot to the touch.
I recently replaced the motherboard and cpu so I don't really think that's an issue unless the psu killed those, too. Video card is fine. I don't know about the ram but have no reason to suspect it's a problem. I'm not going to strip it down to the basics and test it because I don't want to do further damage. I think the bios is also only supposed to beep if there's a video or ram problem and it doesn't beep. I just want to know if a bad psu can make a computer not post.
Yesterday I went to play a game at 2:00. It was on maybe 10 minutes, went to load into another zone but it never finished loading. After serveral minutes I decided it froze and powered off the computer and powered it back on. It won't even post now but the cpu and case fans start up. The case felt hot where the psu is so I determined it must be the root of all evils. I really have no other scientific way of knowing it's the problem other than knowing 250w sucks and that it was hot to the touch.
I recently replaced the motherboard and cpu so I don't really think that's an issue unless the psu killed those, too. Video card is fine. I don't know about the ram but have no reason to suspect it's a problem. I'm not going to strip it down to the basics and test it because I don't want to do further damage. I think the bios is also only supposed to beep if there's a video or ram problem and it doesn't beep. I just want to know if a bad psu can make a computer not post.