Long time lurker and first time poster needs some help please.
My Gateway 7200x desktop won't start. No lights, fan, beeps, just dead. I thought it was the psu (6 years old) so I borrowed a known good Corsair GS600 & installed it.
But I still don't have anything working.
With my old psu I jumped the green wire with a known ground (black) & the fan would come on. I tried the same trick with the new psu & can't get it to work although it moved about 1/16in & stopped.
Several people (not experts) have told me that if my psu works (old one) then the mobo is bad.
Last week I did backup most of the info to an external drive but I sure hate to lose all my info on the C drive.
For the last 2 months or so at odd times my computer would shut down & reboot for no apparent reason. Other times is seemed as if it froze up then take 1-5 minutes before it came back to life.
Can someone help me to diagnose what it happening? I sure would appreciate any help offered.
Steve
My Gateway 7200x desktop won't start. No lights, fan, beeps, just dead. I thought it was the psu (6 years old) so I borrowed a known good Corsair GS600 & installed it.
But I still don't have anything working.
With my old psu I jumped the green wire with a known ground (black) & the fan would come on. I tried the same trick with the new psu & can't get it to work although it moved about 1/16in & stopped.
Several people (not experts) have told me that if my psu works (old one) then the mobo is bad.
Last week I did backup most of the info to an external drive but I sure hate to lose all my info on the C drive.
For the last 2 months or so at odd times my computer would shut down & reboot for no apparent reason. Other times is seemed as if it froze up then take 1-5 minutes before it came back to life.
Can someone help me to diagnose what it happening? I sure would appreciate any help offered.
Steve
