I was in the middle of playing a game, not even a very graphic intensive part and the computer just powered off like it was a power outage. The rest of the appliances were left on, including the monitor. So I bent down to check on the computer and the LEDs on the mother board are still on so I push the power button.
Fans spin, their LEDs turn on for a fraction of a second and then turn off. LEDs on the motherboard are still on. I turn off the PSU and proceed to dust out the inside of the computer (regular dusting was suppose to be this coming saturday) so it's not to bad but still a little dust. Close it up, turn on the PSU hit the power switch, they spin light up and die in under a second again.
I have checked the connections to the socket and the PSU plug. I've been running the system for months with absolutely no errors or faults. It has worked great, no flickers, no graphic errors, no ROM data recovery delays. Nada! And then today it just won't power back on.
So here is my question, what is the most likely cause of this problem?
Motherboard- EVGA nForce 590 SLi
CPU- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6 Dual Core (2x 512mb cache L2) AM2
RAM- 2x1 GB, 2x 2GB [6GB] Crucial DDR2 PC2 6400
Graphics - EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO 512mb
Sound - 7.1 Sound Blaster
Hard Drive - 2x Western Digital 500 GB
PSU - Rpsewill 500w
Monitor - Samsung 22" widescreen
Logitech G15 keyboard
Logitech G15 mouse (i think)
Fans spin, their LEDs turn on for a fraction of a second and then turn off. LEDs on the motherboard are still on. I turn off the PSU and proceed to dust out the inside of the computer (regular dusting was suppose to be this coming saturday) so it's not to bad but still a little dust. Close it up, turn on the PSU hit the power switch, they spin light up and die in under a second again.
I have checked the connections to the socket and the PSU plug. I've been running the system for months with absolutely no errors or faults. It has worked great, no flickers, no graphic errors, no ROM data recovery delays. Nada! And then today it just won't power back on.
So here is my question, what is the most likely cause of this problem?
Motherboard- EVGA nForce 590 SLi
CPU- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ 2.6 Dual Core (2x 512mb cache L2) AM2
RAM- 2x1 GB, 2x 2GB [6GB] Crucial DDR2 PC2 6400
Graphics - EVGA GeForce 7950 GT KO 512mb
Sound - 7.1 Sound Blaster
Hard Drive - 2x Western Digital 500 GB
PSU - Rpsewill 500w
Monitor - Samsung 22" widescreen
Logitech G15 keyboard
Logitech G15 mouse (i think)
