Computer is broke!

[jimclarke]

Woe is me.  Today is a day of great sadness.  My computer is no longer functioning.  When I turn it on, the light flashes at about a 4Hz rate.  My speakers were "popping" at the same rate, and the monitor went blank.  It is not booting at all.  The only way to turn it off is to pull the power cord.  I've tried disconnecting each of the drives and the CPU fan.  I'm not an expert at computer problems but I think I may have a power supply problem.  Does this sound like a good guess, or can anyone please offer any advice?

Jim

[Saitek]

Woe is me.  Today is a day of great sadness.  My computer is no longer functioning.  When I turn it on, the light flashes at about a 4Hz rate.  My speakers were "popping" at the same rate, and the monitor went blank.  It is not booting at all.  The only way to turn it off is to pull the power cord.  I've tried disconnecting each of the drives and the CPU fan.  I'm not an expert at computer problems but I think I may have a power supply problem.  Does this sound like a good guess, or can anyone please offer any advice?

Jim

Sounds like it - unlikely that anything else could cause such a blatant shut down of everything. Unless your computer has been struck by lightening and wrecked, I'd be inclined to think it could only be the power. Don't take me for giving advice, - wait for someone else, but that is what I suspect it is.

[jimclarke]

Looks like it is the power supply.  I checked the 5 and 12 VDC outputs and was reading zero and 7-8 volts respectively.  Thanks and have a good new year.

Jim

[jimclarke]

Well it wasn't the power supply.  I guess it's time to locate a trustworthy nerd.

(no offense meant to nerds--I happen to be one )

Jim

P.S.  I have kissed a girl--got three kids to prove it

[Gunny04]

Hmmmm sounds like something got zapped I had something like this on emachines (Was static electricity from my facial hair, I was 13 at the time too) Well It would semi boot but hard Mobo was a goner, Cheers, Gunny I am sorry to be of no help!

[GunnerMan]

Yeah only thing I can say is pull everything except vital needs so leave your cpu, vido card and 1 stick of ram in. Nothing else plugged in such has hard driver or cd roms or extra ram. Make sure the board is not shorting itself out and try it. If that dosen't work try a different stick of ram, if that dose not work your prolly lookin at a new motherboard.

[jimclarke]

I tried unplugging the nonvital stuff and it still didn't work, so I guess I'm looking at a bad MB.  Thank you for your advice guys.

Take care,

JIm

[NicksFXHouse]

[quote]Well it wasn't the power supply.