My brother was playing warcarft 3 and suddenly the computer switched off.
It went off with a small bang [not an explosion] - no smoke or broken components.
He is running a 3 year old computer, when i touched the heatsink, it was very hot maybe ~80C and burns my skin. [Pentium 4 3.2GHZ socket 478]
When i was diagnosing the problem, i unplugged everything except the ATX12V and ATX 20pin with RAM,heatsink and graphics card in.
I press the power switch, the cpu fan spins momentarily, [around 0.1 seconds] and stops. The power supply is working and i even tried plugging in my old power suply with no luck
So, i unplugged the ATX12V connector and it turned on, but it did not boot up[lack of voltage to components]. w/o everything else plugged in, im assuming the problem lies with the motherboard, [maybe the circutry for the ATX12V is broken??]
PLease help me with this, i dont like sharing my comp with other people!
The computer specs are:
Intel pentium 4 3.2GHZ [socket 478]
MB: Gigabyte 8S64FXP-RZ
RAM: 512MB DDR 300
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9600SE
[3 years old!]
It went off with a small bang [not an explosion] - no smoke or broken components.
He is running a 3 year old computer, when i touched the heatsink, it was very hot maybe ~80C and burns my skin. [Pentium 4 3.2GHZ socket 478]
When i was diagnosing the problem, i unplugged everything except the ATX12V and ATX 20pin with RAM,heatsink and graphics card in.
I press the power switch, the cpu fan spins momentarily, [around 0.1 seconds] and stops. The power supply is working and i even tried plugging in my old power suply with no luck
So, i unplugged the ATX12V connector and it turned on, but it did not boot up[lack of voltage to components]. w/o everything else plugged in, im assuming the problem lies with the motherboard, [maybe the circutry for the ATX12V is broken??]
PLease help me with this, i dont like sharing my comp with other people!
The computer specs are:
Intel pentium 4 3.2GHZ [socket 478]
MB: Gigabyte 8S64FXP-RZ
RAM: 512MB DDR 300
Graphics: ATI Radeon 9600SE
[3 years old!]
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