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Hi,
I hope someone out there can help me.
I was happily running my PC (AMD 64 system with a 300Watt PSU and 1gb of DDR
RAM), but decided to upgrade the Ram. I bought the ram, shut down the pc and
powered off, inserted the module into the slot (the nmobo supports 4GB RAM),
but on rebooting the PC didn't recognise the memory. I shut the computer
down again and turned the PSU off (not at the wall socket), when I
reinstalled the Ram and turned the PSU on again it crackled and arced. I
turned all the power off and went and bought a new PSU (400w switchable),
but when i installed it into a new spiffy case that I couldn't resist, the
PC wouldn't boot, the LED fan at the front of the case lit up briefly, but
that was it.
My wife wanted a new PC, so thinking that I may have fried the MB or the
processor, I went out and bought some new kit, and installed that with the
PSU and case. All I connected up to the new Motherboard was the CPU, 1
memory stick, a hard drive and the PSU. When I power up the small fan on the
MB (Not the CPU fan) starts up for a second then stops.
Could the PSU be at fault? It seems to me that it is (by process of
elimination)

Wally Riley wrote:

> Hi,
> I hope someone out there can help me.
> I was happily running my PC (AMD 64 system with a 300Watt PSU and 1gb of DDR
> RAM), but decided to upgrade the Ram. I bought the ram, shut down the pc and
> powered off, inserted the module into the slot (the nmobo supports 4GB RAM),
> but on rebooting the PC didn't recognise the memory. I shut the computer
> down again and turned the PSU off (not at the wall socket), when I
> reinstalled the Ram and turned the PSU on again it crackled and arced. I
> turned all the power off and went and bought a new PSU (400w switchable),
> but when i installed it into a new spiffy case that I couldn't resist, the
> PC wouldn't boot, the LED fan at the front of the case lit up briefly, but
> that was it.
> My wife wanted a new PC, so thinking that I may have fried the MB or the
> processor, I went out and bought some new kit, and installed that with the
> PSU and case. All I connected up to the new Motherboard was the CPU, 1
> memory stick, a hard drive and the PSU. When I power up the small fan on the
> MB (Not the CPU fan) starts up for a second then stops.
> Could the PSU be at fault? It seems to me that it is (by process of
> elimination)
>
>
>

Oh really?
No O'Riley.
What a Wally.
I would give it to someone who knows what they are doing, if I were you,
and get them to sort it out.

"Brian H¹©" <> wrote in message
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> Oh really?
> No O'Riley.
> What a Wally.
> I would give it to someone who knows what they are doing, if I were you,
> and get them to sort it out.
Thanks for the help *sigh*

*SOLVED*
A new PSU solved the problem
"Wally Riley" <> wrote in message
news:mVlJf.16915$ k...
> Hi,
> I hope someone out there can help me.
> I was happily running my PC (AMD 64 system with a 300Watt PSU and 1gb of
DDR
> RAM), but decided to upgrade the Ram. I bought the ram, shut down the pc
and
> powered off, inserted the module into the slot (the nmobo supports 4GB
RAM),
> but on rebooting the PC didn't recognise the memory. I shut the computer
> down again and turned the PSU off (not at the wall socket), when I
> reinstalled the Ram and turned the PSU on again it crackled and arced. I
> turned all the power off and went and bought a new PSU (400w switchable),
> but when i installed it into a new spiffy case that I couldn't resist, the
> PC wouldn't boot, the LED fan at the front of the case lit up briefly, but
> that was it.
> My wife wanted a new PC, so thinking that I may have fried the MB or the
> processor, I went out and bought some new kit, and installed that with the
> PSU and case. All I connected up to the new Motherboard was the CPU, 1
> memory stick, a hard drive and the PSU. When I power up the small fan on
the
> MB (Not the CPU fan) starts up for a second then stops.
> Could the PSU be at fault? It seems to me that it is (by process of
> elimination)
>
>
>

On 2006-02-17, Wally Riley <> wrote:
> Hi,
> I hope someone out there can help me.
> I was happily running my PC (AMD 64 system with a 300Watt PSU and 1gb of DDR
> RAM), but decided to upgrade the Ram. I bought the ram, shut down the pc and
> powered off, inserted the module into the slot (the nmobo supports 4GB RAM),
> but on rebooting the PC didn't recognise the memory. I shut the computer
> down again and turned the PSU off (not at the wall socket), when I
> reinstalled the Ram and turned the PSU on again it crackled and arced. I
> turned all the power off and went and bought a new PSU (400w switchable),
> but when i installed it into a new spiffy case that I couldn't resist, the
> PC wouldn't boot, the LED fan at the front of the case lit up briefly, but
> that was it.
> My wife wanted a new PC, so thinking that I may have fried the MB or the
> processor, I went out and bought some new kit, and installed that with the
> PSU and case. All I connected up to the new Motherboard was the CPU, 1
> memory stick, a hard drive and the PSU. When I power up the small fan on the
> MB (Not the CPU fan) starts up for a second then stops.
> Could the PSU be at fault? It seems to me that it is (by process of
> elimination)

Take all the bits to someone who can actually test them properly to see if
they can salvage anything for you, and have them build a new machine for
you. Or just cut your losses and buy a ready-made 'base unit' with a
specification that does what you want (or that you can afford).

--
-- ^^^^^^^^^^
-- Whiskers
-- ~~~~~~~~~~

Its the kind of help you get most of the time on this group man!!!

"Wally Riley" <> wrote in message
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> *SOLVED*
> A new PSU solved the problem
> "Wally Riley" <> wrote in message
> news:mVlJf.16915$ k...
>> Hi,
>> I hope someone out there can help me.
>> I was happily running my PC (AMD 64 system with a 300Watt PSU and 1gb of
> DDR
>> RAM), but decided to upgrade the Ram. I bought the ram, shut down the pc
> and
>> powered off, inserted the module into the slot (the nmobo supports 4GB
> RAM),
>> but on rebooting the PC didn't recognise the memory. I shut the computer
>> down again and turned the PSU off (not at the wall socket), when I
>> reinstalled the Ram and turned the PSU on again it crackled and arced. I
>> turned all the power off and went and bought a new PSU (400w switchable),
>> but when i installed it into a new spiffy case that I couldn't resist,
>> the
>> PC wouldn't boot, the LED fan at the front of the case lit up briefly,
>> but
>> that was it.
>> My wife wanted a new PC, so thinking that I may have fried the MB or the
>> processor, I went out and bought some new kit, and installed that with
>> the
>> PSU and case. All I connected up to the new Motherboard was the CPU, 1
>> memory stick, a hard drive and the PSU. When I power up the small fan on
> the
>> MB (Not the CPU fan) starts up for a second then stops.
>> Could the PSU be at fault? It seems to me that it is (by process of
>> elimination)
>>
>>
>>
>
>