Help Help Please!!!

Mick Shrimpton

Hi,

Yesterday evening, after booting up my computer and opening a track on cubase, I went out for a smoke and came back in to find the screen blank, computer silent and the power light flashing green on the front of the case.

After opening up the case and having a look (and a sniff for burning...) nothing seems obviously wrong to myself, who doesn't know much about this sorta thing. The psu is around 8 months old, an antec 380w, which i got to replace my first psu, which died after only 4 months because it was a piece of **** as i was told. The whole system is around 15 months old and has seen very little use. Theres a msi neo2 motherboard, 120gig sata and 80gig ide hard drives, terratec dmx sound card and not much more. Surely the psu could handle all this, I thought....

Is this a psu problem??? Or a motherboard issue??? I left it overnight and still today when I turn it on, nothing happens except that poxy green flashing light.

Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks

tom_ass19

only thing that I can think of is the RAM but usually that brings up a red flashing light.

Try this, disconnect all unesscary hardware, like cd drives, floppy drives, take out the sound card and the graphics card (only of course if your mobo has on-board graphics). If you have two sticks of RAM just leave in one and make sure its securely placed down and the two clips are locked. Disconnect the hard drives aswell and see even if the BIOS comes up.

If you want to aswell disconnect all the small wires aswell from the mobo but obviously leave in the power cable and the reset cable(im on about the tiny tiny wires inside the case).

Other than that thats all I can think of, me not knowing much like but do that and see if it works then. Also when you turn the computer on can you hear any beeps at all coz if you do that will be the POST test and if its stopping their its a hardware problem....

Dooom

Do any fans (including the PSU) spin up when you turn the machine on?
Any lights on the mobo?

If it was a PSU issue, there'd be no power going to any components so that green light wouldn't come on.
Check the manual (if you have it), that'll usually have some info regarding lights and signals.

Mick Shrimpton

Surely the psu fans would spin though, wouldnt they, if it was a ram problem?

stevenmu

Has it possibly gone into some kind of stand by mode ? Try holding the power button for about 10 seconds and see if that forces it to shut down fully, then try and power it back up. Or just pull the power cable out and put it back in again.

Mick Shrimpton

No, there doesn't seem to be any lights on the mobo. Although I dont really know where they should be. Is there any obvious ones to look for. I've had a good look. Does this mean its my mobo?

Dooom

It could well be it. The light (if there is one, check your manual) would be close to the CPU socket.