auggybendoggy October 22, 2004 Share auggybendoggy Member October 22, 2004 Guys, I received a old motherboard pc. It's a athlon (800mhz) socket asus mb. It has 3 ram slots (128, 128, 128) all filled up. a friend wanted a new hd put in. When I brought it home I plugged it in and it was fine. I was going to go to the Asus mb manual sight to d/l the manual when outta nowhere the machine lit up....started winning real fast then popped real loud and smoke came outta the p/s. I realize the powersupply blew up but upon changing the powersupply the whole comp wont light up. The asus has a small green led to show power is being supplied to the mb. So I know the powersupply 550w is working. But when I hit the switch nothing comes on. I have 3 things in mind 1) motherboard was fried 2) cpu was fried. 3) ram was fried. with combinations being also possible. Anyone? Anyone? Auggy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
All Kill3r October 22, 2004 Share All Kill3r Member October 22, 2004 (edited) I say pray the PSU didn't take more then just one thing. Good luck man... You have sdram mobo's laying around to test on by chance ? I say your between a rock and a hard place. Edited October 22, 2004 by All Kill3r Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NOFX October 22, 2004 Share NOFX Member October 22, 2004 I say when the PSU blew it fried the mobo. Just hope it didnt fry the CPU and RAM also. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest zerodamage October 22, 2004 Share Guest zerodamage Guests October 22, 2004 This is why in the past I have encouraged people to NOT use generic junk PSU's. I've seen it happen too many times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
appalachian_fox October 22, 2004 Share appalachian_fox Member October 22, 2004 Slaphappy just put a unit together for somebody, ordered a case and a PSU. The case ended up coming with a junk PSU so he wired it in because it was there, was goign to put the other one aside as a spare. Well, it powered up a bunch of times, worked fine. I was there when he set it up at its final destination (on a very dirty power source) and I must say, the light show was fantastic. The smell was bad, though. Fortunately it only fried the PS, all of the components were fine. We replaced the power cord, too, I would recommend that if its been through a PS fry. But man, what a light show. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
auggybendoggy October 23, 2004 Author Share auggybendoggy Member October 23, 2004 light show hahahaha ha hahahhaa i didnt get a light show but now im tinkled. cause I feel I deserve one. Aug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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