Oh man I think I fried my mobo. I went and removed my two IDE HDDs and installed a 74GB Raptor and a Maxtor 320GB SATA 2. When I put everything back again and hit the power button my BIOS had defaulted to safe settings. No big deal I thought.
Then it just shut down. Nothing happens when I hit power button. Little gren LED on mobo is lit. So I unplug and wait a few minutes. It powers up, but no monitor. It shuts itself down. Again no power when power button is pushed. Unplug and wait a few minutes. Powers up but again no monitor.
I hit the reset button and it keeps resetting like crazy. Finally it stops, so I unplug it again and wait. Plug it back in and there is no little green light, so I figure PSU fried. I try testing the PSU by jumping the green and black wires...no power. OK it must be fried.
So I get another PSU and my green light is lit again, but again no monitor. So I try a different vid card...no joy. So I try the other PCI-E socket...still nothing. So I hurriedly built a PC I was going to build for spec and maybe sell on Ebay. The vid card works.
I'm thinking my PSU is fried and it took my mobo with it. But why?
Does anybody know what happened? Should I buy another PSU and try that, or do I definitely need both PSU and mobo? How would I test the mobo? I am really upset
Then it just shut down. Nothing happens when I hit power button. Little gren LED on mobo is lit. So I unplug and wait a few minutes. It powers up, but no monitor. It shuts itself down. Again no power when power button is pushed. Unplug and wait a few minutes. Powers up but again no monitor.
I hit the reset button and it keeps resetting like crazy. Finally it stops, so I unplug it again and wait. Plug it back in and there is no little green light, so I figure PSU fried. I try testing the PSU by jumping the green and black wires...no power. OK it must be fried.
So I get another PSU and my green light is lit again, but again no monitor. So I try a different vid card...no joy. So I try the other PCI-E socket...still nothing. So I hurriedly built a PC I was going to build for spec and maybe sell on Ebay. The vid card works.
I'm thinking my PSU is fried and it took my mobo with it. But why?
Does anybody know what happened? Should I buy another PSU and try that, or do I definitely need both PSU and mobo? How would I test the mobo? I am really upset