Author Topic: HEEYELP! My computer won't boot up (Read 270 times)

Nash · « **on:** August 16, 2002, 06:08:58 PM »

Copied this from an email I sent to my squad in hopes that maybe someone here can help.

It was time for an upgrade, so I bought a new MB, new 300w power supply, new athlon 1.7?8?6?5? something like that cpu and a stick of 256 ddram (ddram?). The guy told me that all this stuff was compatible together.

Anyways, I took it all home and put it all together and... uh... the thing won't turn on. No power... no fans whirring or anything. I hear the power supply slightly hum when the switch in the back is on, but the pc doesn't turn on when I press the button in the front.

Thing is... I *know* I installed and connected everything properly (yes, the little wire from the ON button is hooked into the right jumper on the motherboard, and the power supply is connected to the mobo as well). Instalation was actually pretty simple. And I took extra special care in not shattering the little cpu when putting on the heatsink fan (what a nerve-wracking pain in the arse that was).

I don't get it.

Weird thing is...

I bought all this stuff because my old computer died. Or did it? It stopped turning on also. Is it power? I plug a lamp into the socket and it works.

What the hell is going on here? Am I losing my mind? I AM STARTING TO FREAK OUT.

Thanks for any help!

SKurj · « **Reply #1 on:** August 16, 2002, 06:14:11 PM »

Check that the small wires for the power switch, HDD led etc are plugged in the right way around. Its not always obvious which way they go.
Check the floppy drive power is plugged in properly (as a test try bootin up with the floppy unplugged)

SKurj

snafu · « **Reply #2 on:** August 17, 2002, 08:53:20 AM »

Sure you have checked this but.... Are you using the power lead off your old PC?

Fuse OK in the plug?

TTFN
snafu

Nash · « **Reply #3 on:** August 18, 2002, 04:32:59 PM »

Thanks for the tips!

I finally figured it out (after trying everything possible). Those little posts that you screw your motherboard into... well... there was one extra that wasn't lining up with any of the holes in it. So I didn't see it. So one of these posts was pushing into the back of the thing, and was shorting it out. Removed the post, et voila! It works.

Thanks again.