- Joined
- Oct 19, 2001
- Location
- newfoundland, canada
This is about my secondary pc:
Athlon 64 X2 s939
1Gb Samsung ram
EVGA 8600 GT 512 Mb
DFI infinity motherboard
Thermaltake TR2 430w power supply
Yesterday I took the case apart to cut some new fan holes. I removed everything, cut the holes, cleaned up the case and placed everything back in.
Then I turned it on, no post. Gave it a hard boot and it seemed okay. Got into windows and tried surfing. Got into Firefox and then things got real choppy. The lag was horrible. I couldn't get into task manager so i gave it a soft boot, no post. Tried again, no post. Hard boot, finally a post but couldn't get to the windows boot screen.
Rebooted again and managed to get into the BIOS. The temps seem okay but from what I can recall, the 12v was low (11.7v). I forgot to check the rest. I tried down clocking a 100Mhz to see if this was an issue now. When I went to save the bios the PC shut down on its own. When i tried to turn it on again, nothing.
I removed everything including the CPU. Turned on the motherboard and no beeps to indicate things were missing. Not good. So being the electronics goober that I am I removed the top to the power supply ( yes I know this is retarded and yes its stupid). I checked for any burnt components but all I was getting was a strange loud noise from the transformer.
I then did a bad thing and touched the large heat sink for the voltage regulators to make sure it wasn't too hot (the fans were spinning). I then got a 120V ac zap (ouch). Trust me, I know what a 120V ac feels like (don't ask). I don't think the heat sink should be carrying that voltage. I also think that it took the motherboard out too since I tried my OCZ 600watt I have in my main pc on this motherboard and got nothing when I tried turning it on.
Anyone agree or is there something else I can try?
Athlon 64 X2 s939
1Gb Samsung ram
EVGA 8600 GT 512 Mb
DFI infinity motherboard
Thermaltake TR2 430w power supply
Yesterday I took the case apart to cut some new fan holes. I removed everything, cut the holes, cleaned up the case and placed everything back in.
Then I turned it on, no post. Gave it a hard boot and it seemed okay. Got into windows and tried surfing. Got into Firefox and then things got real choppy. The lag was horrible. I couldn't get into task manager so i gave it a soft boot, no post. Tried again, no post. Hard boot, finally a post but couldn't get to the windows boot screen.
Rebooted again and managed to get into the BIOS. The temps seem okay but from what I can recall, the 12v was low (11.7v). I forgot to check the rest. I tried down clocking a 100Mhz to see if this was an issue now. When I went to save the bios the PC shut down on its own. When i tried to turn it on again, nothing.
I removed everything including the CPU. Turned on the motherboard and no beeps to indicate things were missing. Not good. So being the electronics goober that I am I removed the top to the power supply ( yes I know this is retarded and yes its stupid). I checked for any burnt components but all I was getting was a strange loud noise from the transformer.
I then did a bad thing and touched the large heat sink for the voltage regulators to make sure it wasn't too hot (the fans were spinning). I then got a 120V ac zap (ouch). Trust me, I know what a 120V ac feels like (don't ask). I don't think the heat sink should be carrying that voltage. I also think that it took the motherboard out too since I tried my OCZ 600watt I have in my main pc on this motherboard and got nothing when I tried turning it on.
Anyone agree or is there something else I can try?
