mickywrx

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Bit of a random one, my PC has started, yesterday, to not turn on.

Press the button on the front, and it illuminates, but the bloody thing doesn't do anything.

Got in from work at about 7pm yesterday, and after multiple attempts it finally decided to start at 9.15pm. Got in from work tonight at 6.20pm, and it finally decided to start at 8.40pm.

Any ideas?

Dubzy

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Usually a sign of the psu on its way out mate.

jura11

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Hi Micky

Looks like yours PSU is on way out as above Dubzy pointed out.

When you power up PC,did you hearing the HDD and CPU cooler or does fan on PSU running ?

Thanks,Jura

53

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Could be bios battery

An0n0m0us

Does it make any beeps when you power it on? If so the number of beeps = an error code telling what the issue is.

I'm with the above though that it's a knackered power supply and there aren't any beep codes.

mjharper

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Hopefully the PSU, the worst case is something on the motherboard acting up that connects to the power supply

Galifrey

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Other possibility is that your HDD is on it's way out and taking stupid long time to initialise.

mickywrx

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Thanks for the suggestions folks, very much appreciated.

BIOS battery has been replaced recently, Stu, along with the HDD and GFX card.

Jura, none of the fans run when I power it up. They do when it decides to behave and actually start. No beeps on powering it up/non-starting.

When it starts and gets to the post test, I just does a single beep, that indicates that there's no problems IIRC.

Since it's actually working at the minute, I'll have a browse for a new PSU. Trying to search the net for stuff on my S3 mini is a pain in the ****.

bioforger

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Not having much luck with this one are you Micky Time to chuck it in the bin and start again Or get a new PSU. Anything from Corsair will do.

mickywrx

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What watt PSU? Current one is 450W, but, it doesn't have a specific supply for the GFX card, I had to use an adaptor on some molex plugs.

bioforger

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Wattage is not that important unless you're running a power hungry GFX card and multiple drives/devices, quality is what counts, anything over 400W should suffice as per your last one. So don't buy some cheapo unbranded one.

mickywrx

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By the sounds it's making, I'm going to need a new external HDD soon. It did get covered in beer a while back though.

I'll have a look about mate.

mickywrx

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Reckon 750W might be a bit overkill?

Bought the same one as this.

stevebt

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Micky I will have one lying around that will do your crappy pc, are you capable of fitting it or do you want me to?

jura11

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Hi Micky

I wouldn't put to yours 750W which is bit overkill for your needs,I would go with something like is 450-500W and personally I would choose modular or semi modular PSU

Something like this

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...23&subcat=2463

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...23&subcat=2462

http://www.ebuyer.com/store/Componen...rice+ascending

I prefer modular PSU,with them you will have better cable management

And about the HDD and this again depends on yours needs,but if its for boot disk then I would go with SSD,they're now cheap and if its as second HDD,then something like 1TB something like this should be great

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...14&subcat=1279

And SSD Crucial MX100 256GB is in my view winner for price and performance point of view

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showpr...04&subcat=2394

Hope this help

Thanks,Jura

mickywrx

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Bought and fitted.

Thanks for the advice, Jura.

I'd always wondered how people didn't have cables all over the place, now I know.

I was just going to get a 500w PSU, all I told Aniq in the shop was that I needed one with the plug to power the GFX card. £27 for the one I bought. It will do for me, until I need to upgrade my PC.

When that time comes, then I'll get an SSD. I paid next to nowt for the 500GB HD that's in there currently.

When the time comes, it be with a new motherboard etc. As you know, I mainly only use it for browsing, so doesn't need to be massively spec'd.

Thanks for your help mate.

stevebt

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If you use a desktop purely for web browsing it's never worth upgrading, just buy a laptop or a tablet or an android box. People only upgrade PCs to play better games as in why I'm playing call of duty advanced warfare on ultra everything in 2560x1600 res

mickywrx

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Don't like laptops, tablets aren't much better/worse, IMO.

jura11

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Hi Micky

I always go with modular or semi modular PSU as they're easy to manage and cables management is for me very important

You should be OK with yours chosen PSU,SSD is great and is worth it,but I would wait until you will be upgrading the PC

For browsing yes agree you don't need to have massive spec'd PC

Thanks,Jura


Android or laptop is great,but as most people prefer to have large desktop

On my PC I've not played games for while,although I can,but still prefer to play games with joypad/controller than with mouse and keyboard

Only game which I always enjoy to play is Life for Speed and R Factor on PC,but most of the games I rather play on PS

I've build PC only for rendering(V-RAY,Poser Pro,LuxRender and Octane) and for music production

Steve do you have R9 290X ?

Thanks,Jura

stevebt

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Jura, yup that's the gpu

mickywrx

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I hadn't realised how noisy my old PSU was, this new one is almost silent.

stevebt

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Now you will be able able to hear Lisa telling you what to do

mickywrx

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