A few days ago, my uncle emailed me that his PC had died. He fucked it up for some reason, reformatted (+MBR) and made a clean XP install. It worked fine, but when he booted it again the next morning, the power switch would just flash and that's it. He figured he'd get a new harddisk; I advised him not to. Then he was like "fuck it, I'll buy a new PC"; which I also advised him not to. His PC is only 2 years old (he doesn't game, edit video's or photoshop at all) and to me it looked like a fried PSU. I took his PC to my place, but couldn't find a fitting spare PSU in my stash, except for an old 125W. Well, at least it buzzed a bit. I tried fitting his PSU in one of my old PC's, and though a led on the Mobo lit up, nothing happened.
As I said, his PC does absolutely nothing, no BIOS, no boot screen, no screen activity at all and none of the fans (including the PSU's) are spinning at all. The Dell powerswitch flashes orange, but that's it. What do you guys think, am I right, is it the PSU? I just want someone else's opinion before I order him a new PSU.
As I said, his PC does absolutely nothing, no BIOS, no boot screen, no screen activity at all and none of the fans (including the PSU's) are spinning at all. The Dell powerswitch flashes orange, but that's it. What do you guys think, am I right, is it the PSU? I just want someone else's opinion before I order him a new PSU.