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(deleted) Fri 01-Dec-06 14:51:38
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Dead PSU?


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Hey guys,
The other morning I woke up to a silent room, which isn't normal.

First thing I do is check to see if there was a power outage in the night but there wasn't.

Second thing I do is turn on my pc. Power comes on, but it doesn't POST. I check the motherboards onboard led to see what the code is, and it was 'FF'. The board was an Epox 8KDA3+ (4 months old). I checked the manual for the error code and there were 4 reasons what it could be displaying 'FF'; Faulty board, card not inserted properly, incorrect bios or bios not inserted correctly. I quickly went through all the possibilities to no avail.

I then decide to take everything out and change the motherboard to my old MSI board. Same thing happens, there's power but no POST.

I order myself a new board, a Gigabyte K8NSC along with a A64 3700+. It came this morning, installed it making sure I took my time with everything and the same thing happens. This time though, it took around 10 presses of the power button before the power came up. I've tried 3 different sticks of memory individually with just the graphics card and a hard drive plugged in and still nothing.

And that's why I'm here. I have no spare PSU (it's about the only thing I don't have spare) to try. Does this issue seem familiar to anyone? I've already been 3 days without my PC and I'm getting desperate now.

If anyone has any suggestions, please let me have them.

Also, if it is the PSU can someone recommend a decent, cheap(ish - ~
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(deleted) Fri 01-Dec-06 15:40:23
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Re: Dead PSU?


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Have a look on the Ebuyer site - there's lots of PSU's there of about 400W upwards that would suit your PC from about
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(committed) Fri 01-Dec-06 17:50:20
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Re: Dead PSU?


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Get a decent brand not some cheap no name psu as they are totally rubbish and not worth risking your kit with. Any of these should be good.

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=375883

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=256335

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=156689

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=154679

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(deleted) Fri 01-Dec-06 21:44:08
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Welp, I ended up buying a Enermax Noisetaker 485w and it's running nice and stable now. If only I knew it was the PSU before I bought the new CPU and motherboard My fault for being lazy.

Thanks for the help guys.
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