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Answer» Hello all, nice to be here and look forward to meeting ya! Names Jason/37/male/NC. I have what may be a serious hardware problem. Recently my puter stopped working. When I reboot, theres one beep, a spinup sound, then it stalls. Nothing is coming up on the screen. NOTHING! I cracked it open, removed all cards from the mobo, cleaned it out with compressed AIR, and reseated all cards, cables, and peripherals. Nothing. I then replaced the video card because it has worked loose before. Nothing. It won't even make it to the keyboard detection. I cannot think of anything other than the monitor causing this. The cpu and power supply fans are all working also, btw. Its a custom-built machine with an amd processor,768MBs of RAM, a 40Gig maxtor HD, and the M811 VIA motherboard, and I use WINXP Home with SP2. Thanks in advance! i cant tell you what it is, but i can tell you whats its not, its not the monitor. who is the maker of your BIOS? (award, phoenix, ami, etc.)Im sure that its Phoenix...generally speaking, there is no real way of knowing what the problem is without testing each component. the first thing i would check is the power supply, see if you can get your hands on one that you know works, or if you must, purchase a new one. if that does not solve the problem, we can continue.ok thanks bud. ill get back to ya.Got the new power supply today. Plugged it into the motherboard and the hd, plugged it into the wall and TURNED it on. Smoke started coming out of it and it quickly started smelling hot before it just quit working. Any comments?Quote from: trag on DECEMBER 12, 2007, 03:37:28 PM Got the new power supply today. Plugged it into the motherboard and the hd, plugged it into the wall and turned it on. Smoke started coming out of it and it quickly started smelling hot before it just quit working. Any comments? what make/model power supply was that?Its a sunbeam 480 watt ps with a 20+4 pin connector, model no. PSU-BKS-480-US 480W RT. Incidentally, upon closer inspection of the inside of my puter, I found that the internal reset switch(?) that is connected to the "spk1" pin near the power led and reset switch pins on the mobo has a frayed, BARE wire. Perhaps that was the initial problem....Quote from: trag on December 13, 2007, 08:43:05 AM Its a sunbeam 480 watt ps with a 20+4 pin connector, model no. PSU-BKS-480-US 480W RT. Incidentally, upon closer inspection of the inside of my puter, I found that the internal reset switch(?) that is connected to the "spk1" pin near the power led and reset switch pins on the mobo has a frayed, bare wire. Perhaps that was the initial problem.... perhaps, was the wire touching anything?Unfortunately I have no idea. The plug looked like it had melted a bit...Quote from: trag on December 13, 2007, 06:16:12 PM The plug looked like it had melted a bit... thats usually a sign that it did touch something. i would recommend a new motherboard, as well as another power supply as the new one you bought apparently didnt work out so well.And Im supposing that I probably need a power supply with a 20 pin connector instead of the 20+4...i would suggest the 20+4 connector. if you buy a power supply with just a 20 pin connector you will not be able to power most newer motherboards as they have 24 pins.So can anyone recommend a good lower end motherboard? Do I need to buy a cpu also? Or can I use the ATHLON thats on the M811 mobo?

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Hello all, nice to be here and look forward to meeting ya! Names Jason/37/male/NC.
I have what may be a serious hardware problem. Recently my puter stopped working. When I reboot, theres one beep, a spinup sound, then it stalls. Nothing is coming up on the screen. NOTHING! I cracked it open, removed all cards from the mobo, cleaned it out with compressed AIR, and reseated all cards, cables, and peripherals. Nothing. I then replaced the video card because it has worked loose before. Nothing. It won't even make it to the keyboard detection. I cannot think of anything other than the monitor causing this. The cpu and power supply fans are all working also, btw.
Its a custom-built machine with an amd processor,768MBs of RAM, a 40Gig maxtor HD, and the M811 VIA motherboard, and I use WINXP Home with SP2.
Thanks in advance!
i cant tell you what it is, but i can tell you whats its not, its not the monitor.

who is the maker of your BIOS? (award, phoenix, ami, etc.)Im sure that its Phoenix...generally speaking, there is no real way of knowing what the problem is without testing each component. the first thing i would check is the power supply, see if you can get your hands on one that you know works, or if you must, purchase a new one. if that does not solve the problem, we can continue.ok thanks bud. ill get back to ya.Got the new power supply today. Plugged it into the motherboard and the hd, plugged it into the wall and TURNED it on. Smoke started coming out of it and it quickly started smelling hot before it just quit working. Any comments?Quote from: trag on DECEMBER 12, 2007, 03:37:28 PM

Got the new power supply today. Plugged it into the motherboard and the hd, plugged it into the wall and turned it on. Smoke started coming out of it and it quickly started smelling hot before it just quit working. Any comments?

what make/model power supply was that?Its a sunbeam 480 watt ps with a 20+4 pin connector, model no. PSU-BKS-480-US 480W RT.
Incidentally, upon closer inspection of the inside of my puter, I found that the internal reset switch(?) that is connected to the "spk1" pin near the power led and reset switch pins on the mobo has a frayed, BARE wire. Perhaps that was the initial problem....Quote from: trag on December 13, 2007, 08:43:05 AM

Its a sunbeam 480 watt ps with a 20+4 pin connector, model no. PSU-BKS-480-US 480W RT.
Incidentally, upon closer inspection of the inside of my puter, I found that the internal reset switch(?) that is connected to the "spk1" pin near the power led and reset switch pins on the mobo has a frayed, bare wire. Perhaps that was the initial problem....

perhaps, was the wire touching anything?Unfortunately I have no idea. The plug looked like it had melted a bit...Quote from: trag on December 13, 2007, 06:16:12 PM

The plug looked like it had melted a bit...

thats usually a sign that it did touch something. i would recommend a new motherboard, as well as another power supply as the new one you bought apparently didnt work out so well.And Im supposing that I probably need a power supply with a 20 pin connector instead of the 20+4...i would suggest the 20+4 connector. if you buy a power supply with just a 20 pin connector you will not be able to power most newer motherboards as they have 24 pins.So can anyone recommend a good lower end motherboard? Do I need to buy a cpu also? Or can I use the ATHLON thats on the M811 mobo?

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