No Power Up, Graphics Card Twitch

timmah · 30-11-2003, 02:09 AM

I did a search and couldn't find anything that matched my problem, apologies if i am repeating stuff though.

My Problem

I 'was' running Windows XP on (?)

Asus AVN8X with onboard sound + ethernet
AMD Athlon XP 2000+
512MB RAM
Seagate Barracuda 80 Gig HDD
Liteon CD R/RW DVD R
GeForce 4 4400 Ti

All was working well until i decided to back up to a Seagate 7200.7 120 Gig Drive and do a fresh install of Windows, the new drive installed fine and then windows setup opened fine, but i had to go out and left it, arriving home late i decided to leave it until mourning and fell asleep with the 10 Gig windows partition formating. i awoke in the morning to a blue/purple\black screen. not terribly suprised i went to reboot and have another crack at it but found that there was absolutely no response. i observed the power LED on the Mobo and tried again, nothin'. No fanse, no disks, but i did hear a brief and faint sound. on closer inspection i found that if i turned the PSU off and on and then hit the power switch that the fan on the GeForce would Twitch, but that was it.

have a lot of work to do and was relying on that computer being available yesterday, any help would be greatly appreciated.

timmah

Big B · 30-11-2003, 01:43 AM

Try a different power supply.

timmah · 30-11-2003, 01:52 AM

The Power LED on the Mobo was on, i tried unpluging the power from the 120 in case it was too much but it made no difference, and it was working fine last night?

Big B · 30-11-2003, 02:18 AM

Well, if something's broke, you're gonna need to find out what that is. And the only good way to do that is process of elimination.

Sniper · 30-11-2003, 10:40 AM

make sure all the wires are connected correctly, also like big b said, take the hd etc out and put it back in one by one, to try and find out what causes the problem?

Anti-Trend · 01-12-2003, 07:46 AM

Definitely listen to Big B. 'Sounds like a power supply issue to me too. BTW, what PSU brand/wattage are you running in that system?

harrack52 · 01-12-2003, 11:52 AM

what they said !

30-11-2003, 02:09 AM	#1 (permalink) Top
timmah Geek Trainee Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2 Status: Offline	No Power Up, Graphics Card Twitch I did a search and couldn't find anything that matched my problem, apologies if i am repeating stuff though. My Problem I 'was' running Windows XP on (?) Asus AVN8X with onboard sound + ethernet AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 512MB RAM Seagate Barracuda 80 Gig HDD Liteon CD R/RW DVD R GeForce 4 4400 Ti All was working well until i decided to back up to a Seagate 7200.7 120 Gig Drive and do a fresh install of Windows, the new drive installed fine and then windows setup opened fine, but i had to go out and left it, arriving home late i decided to leave it until mourning and fell asleep with the 10 Gig windows partition formating. i awoke in the morning to a blue/purple\black screen. not terribly suprised i went to reboot and have another crack at it but found that there was absolutely no response. i observed the power LED on the Mobo and tried again, nothin'. No fanse, no disks, but i did hear a brief and faint sound. on closer inspection i found that if i turned the PSU off and on and then hit the power switch that the fan on the GeForce would Twitch, but that was it. have a lot of work to do and was relying on that computer being available yesterday, any help would be greatly appreciated. timmah

30-11-2003, 01:43 AM	#2 (permalink) Top
Big B HWF Godfather Join Date: Dec 2001 Age: 28 Male Posts: 9,642 Times Helpful: 585 My Mood: Devilish Status: Offline My Computer	Try a different power supply. __________________ Hardware Forums\|HWF Rules\|My DVD's\|PSU FAQ\|HWF Folding Team\|2CPU

30-11-2003, 02:18 AM	#4 (permalink) Top
Big B HWF Godfather Join Date: Dec 2001 Age: 28 Male Posts: 9,642 Times Helpful: 585 My Mood: Devilish Status: Offline My Computer	Well, if something's broke, you're gonna need to find out what that is. And the only good way to do that is process of elimination. __________________ Hardware Forums\|HWF Rules\|My DVD's\|PSU FAQ\|HWF Folding Team\|2CPU

30-11-2003, 10:40 AM	#5 (permalink) Top
Sniper Administrator Join Date: Oct 2001 Age: 25 Male Posts: 4,436 Times Helpful: 120 My Mood: Bored Status: Offline My Computer	make sure all the wires are connected correctly, also like big b said, take the hd etc out and put it back in one by one, to try and find out what causes the problem? __________________ Zone 365 \| F@H Team \| Team Stats \| Use The Thank You System \| My Groups: Manchester United \| Apple

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30-11-2003, 01:52 AM	#3 (permalink) Top
timmah Geek Trainee Join Date: Nov 2003 Posts: 2 Status: Offline	The Power LED on the Mobo was on, i tried unpluging the power from the 120 in case it was too much but it made no difference, and it was working fine last night?

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Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek Join Date: Oct 2003 Age: 27 Male Posts: 4,884 Times Helpful: 538 Status: Offline My Computer	Definitely listen to Big B. 'Sounds like a power supply issue to me too. BTW, what PSU brand/wattage are you running in that system?

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harrack52 Supreme Geek Join Date: Jan 2003 Age: 27 Posts: 1,638 Times Helpful: 16 My Mood: Sick Status: Offline My Computer	what they said !

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