Completed Dead HTPC (1 Viewer)

[Flipit]

A sad day...my 2 year old HTPC died this morning.
May it rest in pieces on the lounge floor until my misses loses it !

This could not be worse timing, I was planning on using it as my server and buying a mCubed HFC as my client when the TV server is released.... damn. Now I have to reconsider all my plans.

Anybody got experience of this... it's never actually happened to me before. Power to the motherboard...but the CPU and Drives don't fire up.... tried cables but all seem fine... thin the CPU may have finally departed.. RIP

Flipit

 

[Spragleknas]

Could you be more spesific?
- Fans working?
- Power good signal?

Tried with minimum HW (1 mem.module, cpu, mb, hdd and gfx -if not int.

 

[Flipit]

- No Fans
- Power Good LED
- No Drives Spinning

Haven't tried minimal hardware yet... have to go to work :-(

Doesn't look good though.

Flipit

 

[Taipan]

Can you try another power supply - it sounds like the +12 volt rail is dead....

 

[prezident]

check your mobo battery and power supply, both lead to this problem when broken.
if only your cpu is broken fans and hdds would spin up.

 

[Flipit]

Think I have an old 400w PSU in the loft.... thanks for the tip.

I have a voltmeter so I guess I could test the 12v rail... anybody know which plug holes these are ?

The PSUs only a year old... Tagan Quiet thing.. that will seriously chap my sack if it's died. I only replacd it as it was quiet and meaty.

Flipit

 

[jawbroken]

The 12V rails are the yellow wires, black is ground. Just finding a spare molex connector is probably the easiest place to test at.

 

[prezident]

just to make it clear, take a look at the pictures .

20-pin and 24-pin connector.

 

[jawbroken]

Yes, but if you want to test it off the motherboard plug then you will need to connect PS_ON (green wire) to ground (black wire) to make the power supply turn on at all.

I know because I use an old power supply as a cheap benchtop power supply for when I fiddle with electronics.

 

[PodgeMaster]

it sounds like the motherboard to me.