Computer is being gaey

2009-01-04 08:32:20

#26

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

Finray wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:
Finray wrote:

If you're not sure on the grounding yourself part, get a few friends in and tell them to hold hands so you all get shocked.

Anyway... You have to take the plug out your PSU/switch PSU off at the wall, go inside your case, find a little cable that's got a black rectangle on the end. It should have something printed in white like "PWR" or "POWER" or such. Also, where it's plugged into the mobo there'll be the same thing. Take that cable out, and the two spikes that you took it out of, complete the circuit by touching a screwdriver on them.

If you're confused just ask, I'll go into more depth/make my post makes sense if needed.
It's not much point doing that with the power cord out.
I forgot to add in put the power cord back in.

/facepalm.

lol right, so basically you're saying to unplug the heavy black power cord off the back of the PSU, then pull off the little mobo power connector, THEN plug the heavy black cable back into the PSU and finally, use the screw driver on the mobo power pins. amigotitrite?

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2009-01-04 08:36:33

#27

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6053|Catherine Black

Im_Dooomed wrote:
Finray wrote:
Freezer7Pro wrote:

It's not much point doing that with the power cord out.
I forgot to add in put the power cord back in.

/facepalm.
lol right, so basically you're saying to unplug the heavy black power cord off the back of the PSU, then pull off the little mobo power connector, THEN plug the heavy black cable back into the PSU and finally, use the screw driver on the mobo power pins. amigotitrite?

Bingo.

Because if you pull it out without taking the power off then you might cause sparks which might short circuit your system. Chances of that happening are about the same as me getting laid within the next three seconds, but you never know, my brother is giving me some scary looks atm.

Also, when you take your power cable out press the on switch to get rid of residual power.

2009-01-04 08:50:13

#28

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

Finray wrote:
Im_Dooomed wrote:
Finray wrote:

I forgot to add in put the power cord back in.

/facepalm.
lol right, so basically you're saying to unplug the heavy black power cord off the back of the PSU, then pull off the little mobo power connector, THEN plug the heavy black cable back into the PSU and finally, use the screw driver on the mobo power pins. amigotitrite?
Bingo.

Because if you pull it out without taking the power off then you might cause sparks which might short circuit your system. Chances of that happening are about the same as me getting laid within the next three seconds, but you never know, my brother is giving me some scary looks atm.

Also, when you take your power cable out press the on switch to get rid of residual power.

lol thnx mate. I found the little power connector. It says PW and it had a orange and white cable going to it. Now I gotta locate a metallic flathead screw driver and then I'll give this a go. So if it DOES power on right away, thats an indication its the power button/cable connectors going to the mobo and NOT the PSU itself. Or possibly the mobo, also?

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2009-01-04 08:59:05

#29

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

Finray wrote:
Im_Dooomed wrote:
Finray wrote:

I forgot to add in put the power cord back in.

/facepalm.
lol right, so basically you're saying to unplug the heavy black power cord off the back of the PSU, then pull off the little mobo power connector, THEN plug the heavy black cable back into the PSU and finally, use the screw driver on the mobo power pins. amigotitrite?
Bingo.

Because if you pull it out without taking the power off then you might cause sparks which might short circuit your system. Chances of that happening are about the same as me getting laid within the next three seconds, but you never know, my brother is giving me some scary looks atm.

Also, when you take your power cable out press the on switch to get rid of residual power.

LOL you're not going to cause sparks. As freezer already stated, that switch has a ridiculously tiny amount of power. It is just a momentary switch. You are most definitely not going to fry anything by unplugging the switch any more than you will fry something by unplugging a fan or a hard drive.

2009-01-04 09:01:09

#30

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

Well, it didn't seem to work. So I guess next step would be 2 try that other PSU.

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2009-01-04 09:05:38

#31

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6053|Catherine Black

CrazeD wrote:
Finray wrote:
Im_Dooomed wrote:

lol right, so basically you're saying to unplug the heavy black power cord off the back of the PSU, then pull off the little mobo power connector, THEN plug the heavy black cable back into the PSU and finally, use the screw driver on the mobo power pins. amigotitrite?
Bingo.

Because if you pull it out without taking the power off then you might cause sparks which might short circuit your system. Chances of that happening are about the same as me getting laid within the next three seconds, but you never know, my brother is giving me some scary looks atm.

Also, when you take your power cable out press the on switch to get rid of residual power.
LOL you're not going to cause sparks. As freezer already stated, that switch has a ridiculously tiny amount of power. It is just a momentary switch. You are most definitely not going to fry anything by unplugging the switch any more than you will fry something by unplugging a fan or a hard drive.

Finray wrote:
Chances of that happening are about the same as me getting laid within the next three seconds

Also, that's the next step.

2009-01-04 09:27:22

#32

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

waht the effff....This other PSU's mobo connector has a different pin setup. I didn't find that out till after I took the first one out and screwed this old one in....

https://img89.imageshack.us/img89/4381/fffffffffffuuuuuuuuufa0.jpg

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2009-01-04 12:46:53

#33

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Well, i reinstalled my Antec TruPower and now it wont start up at all...

ffff...

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2009-01-04 13:10:02

#34

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2009-01-04 13:17:05

#35

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

TopHat01 wrote:
http://www.newegg.com

Believe me I've been looking around. I did send in a request to Antec's customer support wondering if it might be under warranty still. After...almost three years...

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2009-01-04 13:18:00

#36

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

Does the PSU start if you jump it?

Unplug the main ATX 20+4 pin cable and put a paperclip or something between the GREEN wire and any BLACK wire on the 20+4 pin brick. There's only one GREEN wire, and all of the BLACK wires serve the same purpose. This will switch your PSU on. If it is dead, then it won't come on at all and is a surefire way of knowing it is dead. However even if it does start, it could still mean it is faulty. If it does start, be sure to shut it off promptly because running it without a load isn't good for it.

2009-01-04 13:23:26

#37

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

I'll have to give it a try, CrazeD...Pulling the 20+4 pin cable out is kind of a bitch, cause it sits underneath my hard drives. What I CAN tell you is that when I flick the power switch to on in the back, my house lights kinda flicker a bit, so that means it's getting/pulling power right?

So basically I take a paper clip, and stick it in the green wire slot and the other end into any one of the black wire slots?

https://c1.neweggimages.com/NeweggImage/productimage/17-152-035-10.jpg

And after I do that it'll turn on?

And by the way I was thinking of buying this Cooler Master PSU

Last edited by Im_Dooomed (2009-01-04 13:40:34)

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2009-01-04 13:56:58

#38

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

Update: Well, sticking the paperclip into the green and black pins DID turn it on, but it seemed kinda...Slow, or low powered. So ya...Now where's the fault lie??

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2009-01-04 14:11:07

#39

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

If you have a multimeter you can check the voltages on a molex plug. Positive = yellow (12v), red (5v), and orange (3.3v) and negative = any black, they're all ground.

Since there's no load, it's not a sure fire method but if the voltages are very low, for example, it's a dead give away.

2009-01-04 14:15:49

#40

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

GOod news everyone!

My computer starts now on the first try, i dunno what I did other then pull it out, reorganize the cables, tool around with this and that, dust it all off...Anyway hopefully it'll stay working now

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2009-01-04 14:26:26

#41

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

Either there was a loose cable/component, dust was affecting it, or there is a faulty component that acts up on occasion.

2009-01-04 22:19:04

#42

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

Finray wrote:
Im_Dooomed wrote:
Just for the record, I am now working on my brothers computer because he is having troubles gettin it to recognize his HDD's. He had the jumpers set up wrong, so now that I got that corrected, I got all the way to the Windows logon screen. I clicked his user name and the computer rebooted?! So now, after that, it loads the black screen saying if u wanna load Windows in Safe mode, with command prompt, or normally.

I got it to load with command prompt. So should I run chkdsk now? Or something else?
I'd make a new thread tbh.

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Last edited by Im_Dooomed (2009-01-05 19:48:19)

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2009-01-05 04:52:52

#43

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6053|Catherine Black

Im_Dooomed wrote:
Just for the record, I am now working on my brothers computer because he is having troubles gettin it to recognize his HDD's. He had the jumpers set up wrong, so now that I got that corrected, I got all the way to the Windows logon screen. I clicked his user name and the computer rebooted?! So now, after that, it loads the black screen saying if u wanna load Windows in Safe mode, with command prompt, or normally.

I got it to load with command prompt. So should I run chkdsk now? Or something else?

I'd make a new thread tbh.

2009-01-05 06:06:45

#44

Freezer7Pro: I don't come here a lot anymore.; +1,447|6462|Winland

Im_Dooomed wrote:

GOod news everyone!

My computer starts now on the first try, i dunno what I did other then pull it out, reorganize the cables, tool around with this and that, dust it all off...Anyway hopefully it'll stay working now

My bed bet is that you managed to spread the load over the 12V rails more even this time.

As for your brother's computer, reformat. That's the first thing you should do with issues like that.

Last edited by Freezer7Pro (2009-01-05 06:11:07)

The idea of any hi-fi system is to reproduce the source material as faithfully as possible, and to deliberately add distortion to everything you hear (due to amplifier deficiencies) because it sounds 'nice' is simply not high fidelity. If that is what you want to hear then there is no problem with that, but by adding so much additional material (by way of harmonics and intermodulation) you have a tailored sound system, not a hi-fi. - Rod Elliot, ESP

2009-01-05 06:50:38

#45

CrazeD: Member; +368|6938|Maine

Freezer7Pro wrote:
Im_Dooomed wrote:

GOod news everyone!

My computer starts now on the first try, i dunno what I did other then pull it out, reorganize the cables, tool around with this and that, dust it all off...Anyway hopefully it'll stay working now
My bed bet is that you managed to spread the load over the 12V rails more even this time.

As for your brother's computer, reformat. That's the first thing you should do with issues like that.

Or try repair install.

2009-01-05 19:47:35

#46

Mr.Dooomed: Find your center.; +752|6593

Freezer7Pro wrote:
My bed bet is that you managed to spread the load over the 12V rails more even this time.

sadly it is back to its old way of NOT starting up right away. It's gotta be a problem with the mobo then because the PSU did start when i jumped it with the paper clip...I wonder how I can isolate the problem now

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