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Lost Power to turn on ASUS A8n SLI
I came down to my computer today, tried to turn it on and could not get it
to power up. The green light on the motherboard is on, but activating the on switch does not turn on the power. Help! |
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Lost Power to turn on ASUS A8n SLI
Bitstring , from the
wonderful person haggar said I came down to my computer today, tried to turn it on and could not get it to power up. The green light on the motherboard is on, but activating the on switch does not turn on the power. Help! 1) Try powering it off at the wall, and then back on again (this'll fix some problems). 2) If you are halfway competent inside PCs try swapping the reset and power switches (although it's most unlikely that one died). They are both 'momentary contact' switches if we are talking a modern ATX PC (beware AT powered systems don't work like that!). You could also just briefly short the two pins the front panel power switch is connected to, which is what turns the thing on. 3) Examine the motherboard for signs of leaking, bulging, or blown, capacitors, the #1 cause of PCs dying (although they usually act flaky first). If none of those apply then you've probably got a dead motherboard or cpu. You're into serious debugging, which involves removing practically everything, and swapping in know good items for CPU, PSU, motherboard etc. Depending on how old it is, it may be simper and cheaper to just start over. -- GSV Three Minds in a Can Google may be your friend, but groups.google.com posters definitely aren't. |
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Lost Power to turn on ASUS A8n SLI
GSV Three Minds in a Can wrote:
If none of those apply then you've probably got a dead motherboard or cpu. You're into serious debugging, which involves removing practically everything, and swapping in know good items for CPU, PSU, motherboard etc. Depending on how old it is, it may be simper and cheaper to just start over. Given it's an A8N-SLI I'm assuming it's not too old :-) I had a bad Antec Neo PSU cause this on that board.. the +5VSB line got so weak that it couldn't supply enough power to the board to power up. It was fine until I powered the machine down and it actually needed the standby power.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/ |
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