Pc making me cry.....

[SgtFury]

Soooooo decided to put my computer in sleep mode tonight after a bit of Diablo iii. Come to it, press mouse button, nothing, press power button, flash of lights then zilch. Turn it all of, leave it a while then try again flash of lights on it but nada.

Seems seriously broken, any ideas what's happened?

 

[Panda with issues...]

Soooooo decided to put my computer in sleep mode tonight after a bit of Diablo iii. Come to it, press mouse button, nothing, press power button, flash of lights then zilch. Turn it all of, leave it a while then try again flash of lights on it but nada.

Seems seriously broken, any ideas what's happened?

Always online DRM killed it? Ultimate diablo hack?

(Sorry, couldn't resist).

 

[SgtFury]

Har har!

 

[thatbloke]

I'd suggest reseating all of the cables, then if that doesn't work, reseat things like the GFX card too.

after that, could be something like a bad PSU or maybe something died on the mobo...........

 

[thatbloke]

other thing to try is unplug absolutely every device that you can and try it - just leave a monitor in and see what happens (probably the good ol press F1 to continue when you have no keyboard installed)

 

[SgtFury]

Ive unplugged everything power wise from it now. Read something where this happened to someone else and it was ok after 12hrs after being unplugged. Here's hoping.

 

[Ronin Storm]

Okay, specifically how far do you get?

Power on and stays on?
Motherboard power lights turn on/green/whatever?
Fans spin up?
Graphics card fans spin up?
You hear a beep (or more than one)?
Hard drives spin up?
Then you just get a black screen, no activity to monitors at all?

 

[SgtFury]

If I leave it unplugged for a little while, when I press the button I get a green and red light next to the power button flashes and that's it. Press it again theres nothing. Like Ive just posted above, I'm hoping no power lead all night will show a different case in the morning.

For clarification I get no fans, no hard drive, no beeps nothing.

 

[Ronin Storm]

At that level, speaks to dead PSU or motherboard. Probably PSU.

 

[Wol]

Do you have a meter at all you can check that your PSU is up to scratch currently? Make sure youre at least getting +5v and +12V out of it.

 

[Haven]

Tried a hard power button press i.e. for at least 10 seconds ? Also make sure no CD's/USB sticks etc are inserted that could interfere with the boot process.

 

[Wol]

Yeah disconnect everything except: power button (obvs), power to motherboard, + the smaller power connector to the CPU. Disconnect everything else from the PSU and motherboard, including keyboard / mouse / usb sticks / hard drives / cd drives. The motherboard *should* give you a POST beep even with nothing connected at all whether there are errors or not.

 

[SgtFury]

So tried the holding button down for 10 seconds, again Nada . I think it's pointing to the PSU. It's a Corsair CX600.

Here's my setup for info.

- Case: Xigmatek Midgard Midi Tower - Black
- Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W
- CPU: Intel Core i5 760 2.93GHz overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
- Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5
- Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

Looked inside, no light on the motherboard at all (saw a video showing that )
And found a thread here describing the same thing.

http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101906

Unplugged the cd drive and graphics card, still nada.

Annoyingly enough everything is neat in the pc, but it looks like I will have to replace the PSU. Thoughts.

 

[Haven]

So tried the holding button down for 10 seconds, again Nada . I think it's pointing to the PSU. It's a Corsair CX600.

Here's my setup for info.

- Case: Xigmatek Midgard Midi Tower - Black
- Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W
- CPU: Intel Core i5 760 2.93GHz overclocked to 4.00GHz
- Motherboard: Gigabyte P55-USB3 Intel P55 (Socket 1156) DDR3 Motherboard
- Cooler: Xigmatek Dark Knight CPU Cooler
- RAM: Corsair XMS3 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
- Hard Drive: Seagate Barracuda 7200.12 500GB SATA-II 16MB Cache
- Graphics Card: Gigabyte GeForce GTX 460 OC 1024MB GDDR5
- Sound: Realtek 7.1 Channel Sound (On-Board)
- Optical Drive: LG DVD+/-RW SATA Drive

Looked inside, no light on the motherboard at all (saw a video showing that )
And found a thread here describing the same thing.

http://forum.corsair.com/forums/showthread.php?t=101906

Unplugged the cd drive and graphics card, still nada.

Annoyingly enough everything is neat in the pc, but it looks like I will have to replace the PSU. Thoughts.

Yes replace the PSU *thinks this is a sensible first start*

 

[thatbloke]

A new/replacement PSU would certainly be my first port of call on this one, based on what you are describing.

You may well find that PSU of yours has a nice warranty on it - I have the Corsair HX750, and it has a 7 year warranty on it

Stupid question, but do you have adequate surge protection for your PC?

 

[Wol]

How old is the PSU out of interest? Within warranty still?

edit: ugh. too slow. Stop distracting me IRC people!

 

[SgtFury]

Bought the pc December 2010 (thread about it was on here somewhere )
So out of 1 yr warranty. I thought I had surge protection, it's one of those boards that has so many plugs that are turned off by a seperate button and one that isn't for the wifi.

 

[Traxata]

If you pop over to Corsair you'll find that they'll more than happily let you send it back and then send you a replacement.
http://www.corsair.com/support/

Builder Series (Models CX430, CX500, and CX600) have a 3 year warranty

http://www.corsair.com/support/warranty/

 

[Wol]

I'd try and find a way to check that its definitely the power supply first though before sending it back claiming its broken

 

[SgtFury]

Soooo update on my misery..... took into a local shop to have a look at it and he reckoned it was the power supply.... sent off for a new one (from OCZ) fitted it. Nothing. Tried one he had in my pc...it worked. Tried the new one in a different PC, nothing. So now have to wait another day for another PSU through the post!!!

ARRRRGGHHH I want my PC Back!!!