Computer Broken?

[Oniketsoku]

For future reference, what motherboards do you recommend for me?
If thinks dont work out with the psu

[pharoah]

biostar,msi,asus about anything besides ecs,and foxconn< those 2 makers are the cheapest boards made,and it shows to when they have a short life.

[Oniketsoku]

Alright, I'll keep that in mind, thanks; though my current board is an ECS.

[Rob]

Oniketsoku,

I am not sure if you want to make this investment, but at Circuit City you can purchase a power supply tester. That will at least tell you if it is the power supply before you spend the $60.

The tester costs $20 bucks so it may not be worth it to you, but could be of use in the future.

Power Supply Tester at Circuit City.

[Oniketsoku]

Thanks for the link, Rob.

I'll look into it.

[pharoah]

well like i said it truly is a toss up on what is wrong.between the board,and power supply.as forementioned youngyear power supplies are not good,and that info i got from jonnyguru.com,and he is an expert on power supplies without doubt.ecs boards,and youngyear power supplies both use fuhjyuu capacitors.these caps are infamous for busting,and leaking when they get to hot,and under any load stress.i also said to be on the safe side i personally would replace both to rule out future problems from either.


edit:list your full system specs cpu,how many hard drives etc etc.after further investigation i see that youngyear power supply only has 1x12v 13 amp rail.which is a bit low on power.

[Oniketsoku]

Windows XP
1 GB ram and 512 MB ram
1 80 GB Harddrive
Told ya the PSU and Board earlier
New GFX Card: Radeon X1050; AGP
WMP54G PCI wirless adapter card for internet
3.06 GHz processor; intel


Anything else?

[pharoah]

i just wanted to enter your system into the online power supply calculator.to see if you were exceeding your power supplies wattage rating,by the way you are not.the only way you are going to be able to run the exact problem down.is get the power supply tester as rob suggested,or borrow a power supply.honestly it sounds like the board,however if it was high ripple noise form the power supply that caused it.most likely the same thing will occur again.unless by chance you have done it in with static from touching something.

[Oniketsoku]

Yeah.

I brought it to a store yesterday and they said it's the motherboard or the RAM.

They'll be getting back to me later today on what it is.

[Oniketsoku]

Well, my computer has been working flawlessly the past two days - up until 20 minutes ago.
I was playing WoW when all of a sudden the game and computer froze up and nothing would do anything, I powered it down, and when I power it back up, my monitor got no signal, just sitting there on a blank screen. I tried replugging everything in like 15 times. I got my sister's monitor and hers gets no signal either. Any suggestinos..? ~_~

[pharoah]

what exactly did that shop replace.would need to know before id have an idea.

[Oniketsoku]

They replaced the motherboard
They said that was the only malfuntioning part

[pharoah]

hmm did they test the power supply.if you machine is eatting boards i bet its the power supply.

[Oniketsoku]

Yeah they tested all the hardware everything was functioning alright except for the board

[Oniketsoku]

I tried plugging in my monitor to the slot in the board and it still gets no signal.
The board/GFX card are brand new I have no clue what could be going on...

The monitor did this initially when I first powered on the computer when I got it back from the store, it eventually worked but I forget what I did - I don't think it was anything special..