Hi Guys,
Well today of all days (My Day Off!) I wake up to a power cut, quite a large one (area wise) from what I've been told, but it didn't last too long. Once the power was back one I went around checking the computers, all of which were off at the time of both the power going off and coming on. All of the computers worked fine apart from one, my main setup! Typical! (Well that's not the word I used but you get the picture! )
I did in fact unplug all my kit including this computer from the wall while the power cut was still happening as a precaution, but it didn't help. The computer itself and everything else connected to it is running through a surge protector, but I thought better safe than sorry!
So once the power comes back on I plugged the computer back in and it bursts into life, which I thought was odd as I didn't touch the power button. Either way all the fans are running but no monitor picture, so I check the cables and I can't see anything wrong so I took the side panel off and both of the X1800XTs red warning lights are solid, the ones by the PCI-E power socket. I guess this implies that there is a problem with the power supply, as it's not supplying the power the card needs even though the PCI-E 6 pin power connector is plugged in.
The only way I could turn the computer off is either the rocker power switch on the power supply or pulling the plug. Both the reset button and power switch on the case didn't do anything. So I thought I better test the graphics card, plugged it into another system and it works fine. The warning lights did flash for a second on boot up, but I expect that's normal. I put the X300SE that was in the second system in to my main setup and still no joy. I've also stripped out the system by removing anything that wasn't needed for boot up, hard drives, sound cards etc and that didn't help. I've also cleared the bios but that didn't help either.
So am I right in assuming another Antec powersupply has bit the dust? Anything else left to try? Any advice or suggestions would be much appreciated before I go out and buy another (Non-Antec!!) PSU!
Thanks,
Mark