I have recently had a problem with my computer. Last week I took the system apart for cleaning (it was mighty dusty in there). After I reassembled everything, I had no immediate problems. I just couldn't get the green power LED on the front of the case to light, even though I had hooked the leads back up to the mobo. Two days later, I installed a new video card, and the HDD LED also stopped working. The next day, I installed a Zalman fan over my processor. When I plugged everything back in, I smelled something burning, and the mobo's power LED flickered on and off. I unplugged everything, uninstalled the fan, reinstalled the old one and now the system turned on, then immediately turned itself back off and wouldn't restart. I reset the bios via battery removal, yanked out the board/cpu, hooked it up w/a different power supply and got the system to turn on by shorting the pins with a screwdriver after about 45 min of fiddling. It posted, so I shorted it again to turn it off. When I tried to restart it again, by shorting, it wouldn't work. I've since switched out the video card and have only gotten the machine to turn on one other time. Is this a sign that my motherboard has gone to that great parts bin in the sky? Or is this some other problem?
Any help/opinions would be very much appreciated.
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Jump to PostI'm sorry to tell you, but I think you fried your MOBO.
Something was probably damaged in the powersupply onboard which could be the reason that your leds stopped working.
After installing the new fan (which uses more current then your old one) you probably burned a few capacitors (or …
Jump to PostLook at your MOBO and see if you can find some leaking capacitors. (brown stuff coming …
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