No Power Up, Graphics Card Twitch

Discussion in 'Video Cards, Displays and TV Tuners' started by timmah, Nov 30, 2003.

  1. timmah

    timmah Geek Trainee

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    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
     
  2. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    Try a different power supply.
     
  3. timmah

    timmah Geek Trainee

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    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?
     
  4. Big B

    Big B HWF Godfather

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    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.
     
  5. Sniper

    Sniper Administrator Staff Member

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    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?
     
  6. Anti-Trend

    Anti-Trend Nonconformist Geek

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    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?
     
  7. harrack52

    harrack52 Supreme Geek

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    what they said !
     

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