Hello!
I have been having problems with my computer which has escalated into a full system faliure
For the past year(ish) my computer has been having problems. Occasionally I would turn the PC off before going to sleep or whatever, only to find it refusing to power up when I next tried to turn it on. It would literally not power up at all. Then all of a sudden it would work, as if nothing had ever happened.
Obviously this was frustrating... so I began to turn my computer off more infrequently for fear of it refusing to turn back on.
Sometimes however it would have absolutely no problems starting back up.
Crazy right?
Well anyways, I turned it off the other night before going to bed and then the following morning it refused to turn on, and this time it has given up for good (apparently).
I have tried it repeatedly for the last few days but frankly I have given up and have decided to fix this problem now!
So NOW the computer, when connected to the power supply, will display the green light on the motherboard to indicate that the power supply is connected, but pressing the on button will do nothing!
I HAVE TRIED using a spare power supply that I had lying around (never used due to it being only 350 watts) but it presented the exact same problem. I have also tried removing my graphics card and reducing the ram down to just one stick. I even bought a power button replacement for 99p but this failed to work aswell.
I am begining to think, looking around on the internet, that this could be a motherboard problem. Is this right?
This is the mobo I have:
ASUS P5B Socket 775 Core 2 ready P965 chipset onboard audio ATX Motherboard
power supply:
Antec TruePower II 480W PSU
Replacement power supply that I tried:
the psu that came with -Cute ATX Gaming Case with 350W PSU"
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86ghz) Socket 775 Fsb1066 2mb Cache Retail Boxed Processor
I have been having problems with my computer which has escalated into a full system faliure
For the past year(ish) my computer has been having problems. Occasionally I would turn the PC off before going to sleep or whatever, only to find it refusing to power up when I next tried to turn it on. It would literally not power up at all. Then all of a sudden it would work, as if nothing had ever happened.
Obviously this was frustrating... so I began to turn my computer off more infrequently for fear of it refusing to turn back on.
Sometimes however it would have absolutely no problems starting back up.
Crazy right?
Well anyways, I turned it off the other night before going to bed and then the following morning it refused to turn on, and this time it has given up for good (apparently).
I have tried it repeatedly for the last few days but frankly I have given up and have decided to fix this problem now!
So NOW the computer, when connected to the power supply, will display the green light on the motherboard to indicate that the power supply is connected, but pressing the on button will do nothing!
I HAVE TRIED using a spare power supply that I had lying around (never used due to it being only 350 watts) but it presented the exact same problem. I have also tried removing my graphics card and reducing the ram down to just one stick. I even bought a power button replacement for 99p but this failed to work aswell.
I am begining to think, looking around on the internet, that this could be a motherboard problem. Is this right?
This is the mobo I have:
ASUS P5B Socket 775 Core 2 ready P965 chipset onboard audio ATX Motherboard
power supply:
Antec TruePower II 480W PSU
Replacement power supply that I tried:
the psu that came with -Cute ATX Gaming Case with 350W PSU"
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86ghz) Socket 775 Fsb1066 2mb Cache Retail Boxed Processor