I put the finishing touches on a system I have slowly been getting pieces for over the last few months. After getting everything together I plugged the PSU in and immediately it started to smoke and the PC just started to beep.
I don’t have a system I can switch the components into to test individually, but I did have another PSU available. Lights, fans and everything seems to operate, but I don’t get a post only a repetitive beep from the system speaker. I’ve had things go wrong before, but never a PSU like this. What’s the potential that things got hosed? I am RMA’ing the PSU for sure and I need to try and iron out the rest.
My basic setup is this:
Smoking PSU: Powmax LP6100A
M’board: Albatron-KX400-8X Pro
512 MB Corsair XMS DDR 2700
AMD XP 2400+ (retail)
Albatron Ge4 ti 4280
Liteon 52x24x52
Maxtor 40G HDD
Usually an endlessly repeating beeping means something is funky with the RAM. Try reseating it and/or test it in a known working motherboard. Of course, I would be careful at testing since the smoking PSU isn’t a good thing (duh).
It is beeping a 1-1-something which points to the processor and/or motherboard (Phoenix). I am planning on running it outside of the case tonight with the barest of essentials and seeing what I can deduce. Without the “smoking” PSU of course.
You are correct the PSU did pop, actually it made my right ear ache for a while. I quickly removed it from the system, smokin-n-poppin = not good. I’m wondering if it affected anything or I have some other bad hardware, I’ll be toying with it tonight again.
I don’t think it affected anything, besides your ears
My father once had a psu who litterally went up in smoke. As intelligent as it may seem, he tried it to make sure it was really fried. (of course it was)
In the end, all of his other parts were still working
Originally posted by harrack52
[B]I don’t think it affected anything, besides your ears
My father once had a psu who litterally went up in smoke. As intelligent as it may seem, he tried it to make sure it was really fried. (of course it was)
In the end, all of his other parts were still working [/B]
I like your reply best of all, LOL. It implies the least amount of damage from my PSU, and my ear is fine today, LOL.
Even with that said the system will not POST with a known good PSU, which I pulled last night from the computer I’m typing this on. I’m hoping I can deduce something on it this evening.
Running the system with the bare essentials is a good idea, but try using a very low-end card, like a cheap pci or something, because GeForce 4s demand lots of power.
The PSU I am using is a 400W Antec, which should be more than sufficient I would think. I wish I had a card to use in place of my ge4, but I don’t have a card I’d like to use in this scenario.
I didn’t notice anything that didn’t work, case fans, lights, LEDS, HDD spinning, heat sink fans in chipset/v-card/cpu… of course the thing I want most… POST’ing didn’t happen. I actually used the Antec supply last night on the system, which I failed to mention and still no post… which is why I am thinking something got hammered or something else is faulty also.
I’m going to pull the m’board tonight and lay it on the pad it is shipped with. I’ll only have the Antec PSU, m’board, CPU, V-card and memory in the equation at that point. Hopefully something will stick out.
Originally posted by harrack52
[B]I don’t think it affected anything, besides your ears
My father once had a psu who litterally went up in smoke. As intelligent as it may seem, he tried it to make sure it was really fried. (of course it was)
In the end, all of his other parts were still working [/B]
Yeah, Ive had two go on me. Both times on the same board, ram, graphics card and cpu.
I still use the graphics card and ram… everything worked fine afterwards.
Its nice to know!
If you think it maybe your motherboard which is causing trouble with POST try simply resetting the bios. Id read your motherboard boolket first as well if you havent done it with that board before, just to be sure.
I’m thinking it could be the motherboard after last night’s monkeying around. Or in the very least the motherboard, I’ll RMA what I can and start without a tested PSU. This has really been a pain.
It’s pretty frustrating trying to figure out what’s the culprit when a system doesn’t work right, something you’ll run into again and again…which builds your reference of things to try in the future.
