Hello all, I have a pretty seriously problem with my home built computer. I have had it for about 7 years now and every two years or so I just upgrade a part on it. About 5 MONTHS ago it just stopped working and the harddrive failed. The power would turn on about once every 50 times i pushed the power button. So to clarify things, my computer would not start up, but if I kept pushing the power button and messing around with he power supply, the computer would finally start up.

Recently I decided to try and fix this problem and I drew the conclusion that it was either the motherboard or the power supply causing the problem. I bought them both and low and behold STILL WOULD NOT TURN ON. Now this new motherboard had a power switch on the board itself, which when turned on would trigger the lights of the motherboard so I would know the board was getting power. Whenever I pressed the power button on the board I would get nothing, no lights, no fan starting up, nothing.

So this brings me to my question. If a computer wont EVEN turn on and it doesn't seem that the motherboard is even receiving power... what could it be.

Here are my specs.
4G DDR2 RAM
2 80G SATA hard drives
CPU- AMD Athlon 64 x2 'ADA5200IAA6CS'
Motherboard- EVGA nForce 730a
Power Supply - BFG ATX 2.2
Graphics Card - Nvidia 8600 GTS

So I would really appreciate the comments. All I can think about is the CPU now being bad, but I don't understand why that could affect power capabilities. From research i have done, the Motherboard, CPU and Power supply are all compatible with each other.

the switch in the case gone bad is pretty much all I can think of. You do have standoffs in right?I would think the same ,[case switch]omg! you have 666 posts! hurry post something now!!!!!!!! So basically get a new case switch and be ghetto and plug it in and put the wire outside your case or get a whole new caseHow is that Computerruler? 666 doesnt mean anything. KEEP THE FAITHif 666 is bad, then 999 had to be bad too, in case somebody were to look at it upside down. Also, so should 333, since a basic multiplication can create 666.QUOTE from: computeruler on June 01, 2009, 06:47:57 PM

omg! you have 666 posts! hurry post something now!!!!!!!!

If you think it's the switch, and you have a reset button on the front panel , I think you could use the reset button for the PW-ON switch by plugging the reset connector plug to the PW-ON connection on the motherboard header. Of course you'll have no reset button on the front of the case....