Motherboard Forums


Reply
Thread Tools Display Modes

PC won't boot. PSU suspected

 
 





















Bill Stock
Guest
Posts: n/a

 
      05-06-2008, 03:39 AM


I put a rebuilt PC back in service before I went on vacation, but came back
to a non booting PC. It makes a thunking/clicking noise when first turned
on and freezes about half way through the boot screen. It makes the normal
single beep when booting. I was considering buying one of those PSU testers,
but since I can get into the BIOS I decided to check out the MB readings.
They are 1.26, 3.26, 4.84 and 11.89. The 5V seems a little low, but I don't
know how accurate these MB readings are and I doubt 3% is enough to matter.
But it's not telling me how many amps are being supplied or how clean the
power is. Everything in the BIOS looks OK (time, date drives, CPU, etc). I
pulled the boot drive and put it in another PC and it checks out OK.

Any thoughts, PSU, Video, BIOS?

MB is an A8N SLI Premium.



 
Reply With Quote
 
Ed Light
Guest
Posts: n/a

 
      05-06-2008, 07:10 AM
Is the psu fan spinning?
---
Ed Light

Better World News TV Channel:
http://realnews.com

Bring the Troops Home:
http://bringthemhomenow.org
http://antiwar.com

Iraq Veterans Against the War:
http://ivaw.org
http://couragetoresist.org

Send spam to the FTC at

Thanks, robots.
 
Reply With Quote
 
Bill Stock
Guest
Posts: n/a

 
      05-07-2008, 02:54 AM

"Ed Light" <> wrote in message
news:IDSTj.31633$...
> Is the psu fan spinning?
> ---
> Ed Light


Yeah, there's a good breeze coming out of the PSU. It's a Seasonic less than
two years old.

I removed all the cards and disconnected everything except the boot drive,
but it still freezes midway through the boot screen. I guess I'll try
another video card next and try to find some different RAM. I suppose it
could be the BIOS, but I'm not getting checksum errors and I can navigate
all the screens fine. I'll likely pull the board too, in the event it's a
short in the case somewhere.


 
Reply With Quote
 
Bill Stock
Guest
Posts: n/a

 
      05-07-2008, 03:59 AM

"Bill Stock" <> wrote in message
news:5f901$48210b2a$cef886b1$-Free...
>
> "Ed Light" <> wrote in message
> news:IDSTj.31633$...
>> Is the psu fan spinning?
>> ---
>> Ed Light

>
> Yeah, there's a good breeze coming out of the PSU. It's a Seasonic less
> than two years old.
>
> I removed all the cards and disconnected everything except the boot drive,
> but it still freezes midway through the boot screen. I guess I'll try
> another video card next and try to find some different RAM. I suppose it
> could be the BIOS, but I'm not getting checksum errors and I can navigate
> all the screens fine. I'll likely pull the board too, in the event it's a
> short in the case somewhere.


Turned out to be bad memory. Pulled one stick and the PC boots right up.
Replacing the good stick with the bad stick and windows crashes with
corrupt files. So I'm pretrty sure it's the memory and not the board.


 
Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools
Display Modes

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are Off


Similar Threads
Thread Thread Starter Forum Replies Last Post
Re: Gateway Bro Essential 700c Postman Delivers Gateway 4 02-14-2009 08:44 AM
MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum boot delay, missing SATA drive kellerb MSI 2 11-18-2007 11:41 PM
BIOS Boot Order changes by itself ohaya MSI 3 11-17-2007 04:10 PM
P5E3 Deluxe WiFi/AP: Can't Find SATA Boot Device Error ekohl8@vodafone.de Asus 2 11-11-2007 08:07 PM
PM87, MS-7104 VER 2 WON'T BOOT FROM HD uno ono MSI 1 07-20-2007 06:40 AM


All times are GMT. The time now is 04:16 AM.

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43