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by **Damaen** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 3:16 pm

just curious. i was playing wow when a loud popping sorta noise and flash of light (ty plexiglass) came from the tower. I have no power whatsoever now.

so i assume the PS is dead, because i would get a green light if there was power, right? or would i not get anything if mobo blew up?

and wtf would the light have been. i think it was white or blueish

lol

by **rhonnin** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 4:47 pm

OMGSPLOSION!!!

by **redwarrior666** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:04 pm

Two things come to mind Power Supply or Capacitors on the motherboard. On Cheap Motherboards usually after a couple of years the capacitors tend to leak and poof explode from time to time. Check the tops of the capactitors for any yellow, brown or green stuff.

by **FloobieDoobie** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 5:21 pm

Yeah Red's right it sounds like a cap blew out. May be a cap on the mobo but if it was a loud pop it's probable one of the large capacitors in the power supply itself (if you're lucky that is).

by **Damaen** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:06 pm

i took it into my store and the tech guy plugged in a spare PS and it all worked.

got home, installed new PS, and system wont boot. says its missing a file or its corrupt, and to repair. sadly i am not sure what to do from the dos-like prompt. so many little options i dont understand. all i want is a 'make new file its missing here' option lol

maybe make a new boot sector? hrm.

and is it standard for PS cords (the ribbon that goes to mobo) to have 4 extra plugs? i mean it still fits in place right but im not using al ths slots. so wierd.

and windoes loaded. did i fix it? i dont know.

by **Socco** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 7:41 pm

Damaen wrote:i took it into my store and the tech guy plugged in a spare PS and it all worked.

got home, installed new PS, and system wont boot. says its missing a file or its corrupt, and to repair. sadly i am not sure what to do from the dos-like prompt. so many little options i dont understand. all i want is a 'make new file its missing here' option lol

maybe make a new boot sector? hrm.

and is it standard for PS cords (the ribbon that goes to mobo) to have 4 extra plugs? i mean it still fits in place right but im not using al ths slots. so wierd.

and windoes loaded. did i fix it? i dont know.

Might have a corrupt windows file from it. Try to repair it and you may need to reinstall if it fails. If it's loading now don't know about it

Count the number of plugs on the motherboard connector and the PS connector. If the mobo has 20 and the PS has 24, don't worry about it; they made the transition from 20pin to 24pin in the past few years. I believe that the idea was to get rid of the seperate 4 pin connector for the processor.

by **FloobieDoobie** » Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:56 pm

The 24 pin connector is not compatable with the seperate 4 pin 12V connector. Most new PS's support both in that the extra 4pins on the main connector are able to be detached and have a seperate 4 pin connector.

As for the file what is the error message it's giving you?

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