To be as short and to the point as I can.... basically my four year old desktop which I built myself running a raidmax atx 12v psu in a raidmax case, started to give off that burning electrical smell from the psu a couple of weeks ago. I feared that the psu was just old and was dying.
The next day the system would not power up at all so I ordered a thermaltake 430w psu to replace it. I installed it (and double checked that I did so correctly as far as I know) but all I can get when I try to power up the system is a quick 1/4 of a second flash of power where the case fans, proc. fan etc all start and immediately stop and then all power is zapped. To even get that little power splurge again I need to reset the psu or unplug/plug it back in...
Can anybody help me with this, or explain what I am looking at here? I fear that the old psu prob fried the mobo but I don't really have a lot of experience with fried mobo so I don't know what I am looking at any further. Thanks alot for any help