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03-24-2009, 01:16 PM
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Cool beans bro
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Another "PC won't boot" thread
So Ive had my rig for roughly 2 years now and it held up fine till we had a power outage in September. I've been busy with school so i've just been on my laptop the entire time and had no time to fix the desktop. When I tried to boot up the pc it boots up for 2 seconds and then shuts off it then repeats it self over and over. It doesnt post and I dont even see a BIOS screen. Okay, so I tried resetting the CMOS. This did nothing and now Im saying to myself Im totally screwed. I took out all the ram, video card, optical drive, everything thats peripheral and it does the exact same thing. So I can conclude it isnt the ram like someone else had a problem with earlier. I brought the PSU to work and they used one of those testers and it checked out fine. So the only thing I can conclude is it being the mobo. For clarification I've got:
E6600
Gigabyte DS3 P965
2X1 GB Firestix
2X512 OCZ Gold
Seagate 7200.10 320gb HD
Antec Truepower Trio 550W
Antec P180
And I tried going to gigabyte for an RMA but the damn site is down http://rma.gigabyte.us/ . Does anyone have any clue as to what it could be?
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03-24-2009, 01:31 PM
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RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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I think it's the mobo because this happened to my gf's computer a while back too. At 1st I thought it was the psu that blew (which did blew) but after putting in a new psu, the computer would boot up for a few seconds then turn off and in the end I was pretty sure the motherboard and psu blew from the power outage.
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03-24-2009, 01:40 PM
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It's probably the mobo. On the board, are there any bulging or blown capacitors?
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03-24-2009, 01:49 PM
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I answer every Emotion with an emoticon
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^+1 for mobo. The same thing happened to me a couple of times. Brown/Black out & the mobo got owned. I need a surge protector.
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03-24-2009, 01:56 PM
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Cool beans bro
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Ahh ic, I didn't spot any blown or bulging capacitors nor smell anything goofy at the time. Sounds like im going to have to wait like a month for this RMA to go through, that's even if the site goes back up. I sure hope the PSU and Mobo aren't shot ughh. I had it hooked up to a surge protector but I guess it was pretty crappy.
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03-24-2009, 02:56 PM
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Los Bastardo owned my ass at least once
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if it isnt the psu then the next one is the mobo
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03-24-2009, 04:07 PM
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Where's my RS Christmas Lobster?!
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The Power Supply tester you used needs to test the PS under normal load. Did it appear to do this? If not, I would get another PS before concluding it was the MB.
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