this is most always PSU or MB usually MB IME. Had one last week , no obvious blown caps. My guess caps do not have to show failure to fail unless heatsink fan not seated on cpu unlikely, even with bad cpu power should run. fp
At 09:53 PM 5/14/2007, Jerry Jones Poked the stick with: >My kid's PC stopped working this past weekend. When the power button is pushed >there is a momentary flash of the power light on the case, then nothing. Case, >CPU, video card and motherboard chipset fans do not spin. Pulled the cover off >and could see that at the same time the power light flashes momentarily, the >CPU fan starts to move then stops. The LED on the motherboard is getting power >and stays lit. The PC consists of: > >Abit IC7-Max3 mobo >Geil 2x512mb memory (forget the speed, PC4000, I think) >ATI 9800 Pro PCI video card >Pentium 4 - 2.4 CPU >LiteOn DVD drive >Seagate 160GB hard drive >Antec True 480 PS > >My first thought was that the Antec TrueBlue 480w power supply has died. I >pulled it out and put in an Ultra V 500w power supply that was still new in >box with shrink wrap on. After getting the Ultra connected, it does exactly >the same thing. So what could be the problem? motherboard dead? If it was some >other component, I would expect that some of the fans would spin. As far as I >can tell, none of the capacitors appear to have blown their top. > > > -- Tallyho ! ]:8) Taglines below ! -- My other tagline is a footnote.
