Hi all,
First time poster on these forums so please forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere.
My 2-year-old PCS supplied desktop has apparently died, powering it on merely results in a rapidly blinking red LED on the multi-card reader. Opening up the case shows that the green LED next to the diagnostics card and the two buttons on the diagnostics card itself are also blinking rapidly. There is no other activity anywhere.
I tried unplugging everything but same result.
When I power on the PSU, there is no voltage on the motherboard 12v connectors (EATX12V), and the 24-pin connector (EATXPWR) has only one of its 5V lines powered up (the 5V standby) and 2.3V on one of the other pins (the PSON# pin). Is this normal? I suspect I may have a dead PSU but I have no idea what pins should be powered up before the mobo gives the go-ahead (I believe that's how these things work these days!)
Over the last few months, odd things have been happening. First, sleep mode stopped working overnight Consistently thereafter, every time I tried to use sleep mode the PC would power down completely, leaving me with the "not shut down properly" messages on power-up. More recently, the screen has been flickering, particularly while playing Just Cause 2. Could that be a failing PSU?
If anyone can help shed any light on what's gone wrong here I'd be most grateful. I'm techie, but not at this level.
The system is: Asus P6T WS Pro motherboard, Intel i7-920, 6GB Corsair Tri-DDR3 1600MHz RAM, FSP Everest 800W Quiet quad rail PSU, Coolermaster Sileo 500 case, 1GB ATI Radeon HD5750 graphics card, 4x1TB SATA HDD (arranged as 2x2TB RAID1), Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Blu-ray writer, DVD rewriter, wireless N card, multi-card reader.
Many thanks,
Moosepig
First time poster on these forums so please forgive me if this has been covered elsewhere.
My 2-year-old PCS supplied desktop has apparently died, powering it on merely results in a rapidly blinking red LED on the multi-card reader. Opening up the case shows that the green LED next to the diagnostics card and the two buttons on the diagnostics card itself are also blinking rapidly. There is no other activity anywhere.
I tried unplugging everything but same result.
When I power on the PSU, there is no voltage on the motherboard 12v connectors (EATX12V), and the 24-pin connector (EATXPWR) has only one of its 5V lines powered up (the 5V standby) and 2.3V on one of the other pins (the PSON# pin). Is this normal? I suspect I may have a dead PSU but I have no idea what pins should be powered up before the mobo gives the go-ahead (I believe that's how these things work these days!)
Over the last few months, odd things have been happening. First, sleep mode stopped working overnight Consistently thereafter, every time I tried to use sleep mode the PC would power down completely, leaving me with the "not shut down properly" messages on power-up. More recently, the screen has been flickering, particularly while playing Just Cause 2. Could that be a failing PSU?
If anyone can help shed any light on what's gone wrong here I'd be most grateful. I'm techie, but not at this level.
The system is: Asus P6T WS Pro motherboard, Intel i7-920, 6GB Corsair Tri-DDR3 1600MHz RAM, FSP Everest 800W Quiet quad rail PSU, Coolermaster Sileo 500 case, 1GB ATI Radeon HD5750 graphics card, 4x1TB SATA HDD (arranged as 2x2TB RAID1), Windows 7 Professional 64-bit, Blu-ray writer, DVD rewriter, wireless N card, multi-card reader.
Many thanks,
Moosepig
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Tried re-seating all the mobo power connectors (and giving all the others a shove and removing the graphics card) to no avail - flashyflashyflashy goes the LED. The power supply does smell a bit funny - a bit like electolytic capacitors that we used to blow up at school, a sort of acrid smell, and the house smelt a bit like that when I got home today. Incidentally I've corrected the pin numbering on my original post, I was looking at the plug but using the mobo socket pin-out, the 5V standby line has around 4.7V on it, and the PSON# line has around half that (not that surprising) with no voltages anywhere else.