Puter died today

[Ygor]

Hi all!
I had several freezes online earlier that forced resets, then my system was no longer recognizing the C drive on the promise 66 ata adapter card. I took the cable off that drive and connected it to my onboard IDE (Abit bx6-2, p2-350), and changed the boot sequence & jumpers accordingly.
I still had no hard drive and neither the power button nor the 3-finger salute was working, so I hit reset again.
Now I have nothing. No power up at all. I pulled the power supply, not sure what the fuse value is. The fuse appears to have a bubble in the middle, but still seems to be complete. I took a fuse from another ps & tried that, still no power up. That fuse is good visually.
My C drive is a WD 9.1 gig, only 5 months old. It was not among those recalled.
I do have another ps, but it is the one in this computer and I'm reluctant to take it down for fear of having no working computer at all.
I wish I could narrow it down more, but this is all I know. It was working fine, had some freezes, lost the boot drive, now nothing. It has virus protection and it was enabled. It is properly using a surge strip too, with other devices working from that same strip.

[buitenb]

he dude i am sorry for your dead puter
my feelings are that your mobo died
on the past i had the same problems with
a puter replaced the mobo and it was fine .

succsess

[CMonster]

Pull out or disconnect everything not necessary to run the computer, including the drives and their power cables - just leave the video card in there; then test to see if it boots to BIOS. This way you can narrow down the possible problems; i.e. Does it boot? If (NO) try the other P/S (vid card/ram/cpu/mobo/etc), if (YES -it boots) reconnect the floppy drive, put a boot disk in the machine and see if it fires up. Continue adding components one at a time until you discover the problem.

Nearly all modern computer power supplies have some protection against shorts and will shutdown faster than you can blink and will not start if there is a direct short - if one of your components has devoloped a short it could be causing the problem you are experiencing now.



[This message has been edited by CMonster (edited 11-25-1999).]

[Ygor]

Thanks CMonster!
We're going out to get a meter today so I can be certain about the fuse I have, then will do as you've outlined.
I'm wondering if I've just pushed that 250 watt ps too hard? I did have another drive in it for a while that I wasn't using, so I doubt it.
This is why I come here, to learn! I hate feeling helpless when something doesn't work!

I'll let you know when I know, thanks again!

[Ygor]

This is really strange... it appears to be the processor. It wasn't overclocked and I did get the 3 year warrantee.

Hoping I can get a P3-450 before the price goes higher...

I know the record Egghead has at Reseller Ratings, does anyone know if the fact it's an Intel product make any difference?

[This message has been edited by Ygor (edited 11-26-1999).]