- Joined
- Jul 16, 2005
- Location
- Ontario, Canada
So I left the rig running today while at work crunching, I came home and to my surprise a lovely BSOD greets me, "Hardware Failure"
Excellent cause thats a easy one to trouble shoot, so I shut the rig down and waited a second or 2 and powered on, oooo the suspense but sadly nothing.
So I cleared cmos, pulled battery, unpluged from wall blah blah still nothing, as a last resort I pop'd the chip then replaced it and powered on...yea it posted then died a horrible death, strange lines on my screen and a hard lock when it was gettting ready to load windows now no power no lights no nothing... socket is squeaky clean no burns ect chip looks ok, I hope my gpu and chip survived.
After a quick google search most ppl say it could be a PSU problem whats a reliable way to test a PSU without having multi meter on hand?
Excellent cause thats a easy one to trouble shoot, so I shut the rig down and waited a second or 2 and powered on, oooo the suspense but sadly nothing.
So I cleared cmos, pulled battery, unpluged from wall blah blah still nothing, as a last resort I pop'd the chip then replaced it and powered on...yea it posted then died a horrible death, strange lines on my screen and a hard lock when it was gettting ready to load windows now no power no lights no nothing... socket is squeaky clean no burns ect chip looks ok, I hope my gpu and chip survived.
After a quick google search most ppl say it could be a PSU problem whats a reliable way to test a PSU without having multi meter on hand?