Ahha, well I also tried another PSU on the "faulty" mobo/processor that was a much lower power rating (180 W) and that worked!... for a few seconds. Everytime I tried to power up the mobo and processor I didn't have anything else hooked up that required power. Then I hooked up a hdd to the psu...
Thanks Ben,
I just found out that the PSU WASN'T faulty as I was just able to use it on a different mobo and processor (and old pentium II). I think you may be right with the processor bit, although I MIGHT have a faulty mobo. I just wrote the manufacturer of the mobo to see if my warranty...
Well THANK YOU ALL very much for the information. It seems that I possible have a psu problem. If you look in my specs from the original post above you will see that the brand of the psu. Does anyone know of this brand to be problematic? Either way, I decided to try out a different psu (an...
What I do to get it to "jump start" again (for the one time) is unplug the power cord from the back of the psu and make sure it's set to OFF. Then I plug it in again and turn the psu to ON and press the power button. That usually gives me the result of just quickly tunring on for about a split...
I recently purchased all of the "necessary" parts for a computer that I'm building from scratch. The specs are below. I don't really understand that problem that I might be having, and that problem is this: When I plug the motherboard in with merely the single RAM module mentioned below, the CPU...
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