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Computer won't start - it's the mobo, right?
Hi,
A friend's Athlon 64 / Gigabyte motherboard system wont start. It's been running fine for about 18 months. He usually leaves it on 24/7. One morning he woke up to find the computer had turned itself off. He tried to start it. The HDDs span up, the power and HDD lights came on, the fans span up but there was no beep and no signal was sent to the monitor.
I've tried running his CPU, RAM and Graphics Card in my system and they're all fine.
I figure this leaves two candidates for the failure: the mobo or the power supply. But I very much doubt it's the PSU because the HDDs and fans all spin up. Can we say with confidence that the problem is the motherboard and he needs a new mobo (I'd rather not lug my PSU to his place to test because he lives some distance away). Are there any ways to test a PSU with just a multimeter?
Thanks,
Jack
Hi,
A friend's Athlon 64 / Gigabyte motherboard system wont start. It's been running fine for about 18 months. He usually leaves it on 24/7. One morning he woke up to find the computer had turned itself off. He tried to start it. The HDDs span up, the power and HDD lights came on, the fans span up but there was no beep and no signal was sent to the monitor.
I've tried running his CPU, RAM and Graphics Card in my system and they're all fine.
I figure this leaves two candidates for the failure: the mobo or the power supply. But I very much doubt it's the PSU because the HDDs and fans all spin up. Can we say with confidence that the problem is the motherboard and he needs a new mobo (I'd rather not lug my PSU to his place to test because he lives some distance away). Are there any ways to test a PSU with just a multimeter?
Thanks,
Jack
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