Hi,
My Problem:
Tonight I went to turn on my PC and the machine was "dead" so to speak. No fans/drives attempting to boot up or anything, even momentarily, just a completely dead machine. In addition to the machine being "dead", I noticed that there is a green light on the motherboard that remains on when the machine is plugged in with the PSU turned on. PSU fan is not turning on either.
Things that I have done to try to fix this:
-Change the power supply.
-Bypass power button switch.
-Reset bios by removing battery. Also tried different battery.
-Remove RAM, hard disk and CD drive. No beep.
Obviously, none if this has brought my PC back to life so I am wondering what could be causing this? The PC was not moved or anything recently and no hardware / software changes of any sort have been done recently.
However!....(I dont know if this is worth mentioning or not) it might be helpful to make the following known: When PSU is connected, there is green light on motherboard.
Also, when I lift 20 pin power connection to motherboard( littel bit not compeletely), PSU fan, processor fan runs and get orange light on cabinet. Also green light on motherboard turn blinking green light. But still computer is not booting up and nothing on monitor.
What do you think could be the cause of this? Any ideas?
System Specs:
Emachine T2898
Operating System: Windows XP
RAM: 2x 512mb (1gb Total)
My Problem:
Tonight I went to turn on my PC and the machine was "dead" so to speak. No fans/drives attempting to boot up or anything, even momentarily, just a completely dead machine. In addition to the machine being "dead", I noticed that there is a green light on the motherboard that remains on when the machine is plugged in with the PSU turned on. PSU fan is not turning on either.
Things that I have done to try to fix this:
-Change the power supply.
-Bypass power button switch.
-Reset bios by removing battery. Also tried different battery.
-Remove RAM, hard disk and CD drive. No beep.
Obviously, none if this has brought my PC back to life so I am wondering what could be causing this? The PC was not moved or anything recently and no hardware / software changes of any sort have been done recently.
However!....(I dont know if this is worth mentioning or not) it might be helpful to make the following known: When PSU is connected, there is green light on motherboard.
Also, when I lift 20 pin power connection to motherboard( littel bit not compeletely), PSU fan, processor fan runs and get orange light on cabinet. Also green light on motherboard turn blinking green light. But still computer is not booting up and nothing on monitor.
What do you think could be the cause of this? Any ideas?
System Specs:
Emachine T2898
Operating System: Windows XP
RAM: 2x 512mb (1gb Total)