I'm back on the old and slow HP laptop once again. I know we have a lot of Geeks here,so I'll toss this out to see if anyone has any ideas. Yesterday, I started my desktop machine. It booted up fine. While checking out Xmarks (where else?)about 15 minutes later, it shut down. I restarted and went into setup to see if I saw anything. It shutdown again before I could stumble through the menus to get to the processor operating temperatures and such. Now, it will not start at all. I have a lighted case, with two case fans. The processor is an AMD64 3200 running on an ASROCK MB. I am only running 256 megs of DDR ram right now, my daughter has my 1 gig stick in Salem (long story). Anyhow, now the case switch won't do anything. Turning off the new chiefmax 650 watt power supply (dual fan) and unplugging it, does this:
After leaving the supply unplugged, for a period of time, I put the plug back back in and turn on the powersupply switch. The caselights flash on and the fans spin, then stop. When I hit the power switch on the fromt of the case, the same thing happens. IE the lights flash and the fans spin and then stop. After that, the front switch doesn't work again. Both the MB and the processor are new upgrades installed two weeks ago. The processor heatsink and fan are the ones supplied with the combo, and the processor cooling fan at least attempts to run. I have unplugged everything,including the keyboard, (Of course, I left the two hard drives and my DVD RW drive connected) and tried to start the computer and tried to start it. Still a no go.any ideas. I am starting to wonder about this case. I donot see how the case could cause problems, but the Chiefmax is the third power supply I've had to install in the last couple of months and the case, drives and ram are the only things common to the problems. Anyone have any ideas?