Hi all,
My old dell xps8500 has been going strong, a few new cards, drives, a new cmos battery and little else over the years (it’s never had new thermal paste, I’ve never touched the cpu tbh). Recently I went to plug in a usb device in one front USB port whilst another usb device was in another port and I accidentally picked up the end of the thing already plugged in and plugged it in again meaning both ends of one cable were plugged into 2 ports. I don’t think it turned off then though. Have i fried my motherboard in some sort of short circuit death as I now get about 10 seconds then it just powers off - no lights, no beeps just dead as a can of spam. I did put a cheap msata card in about 6 weeks ago but it’s been on fine maybe 10 times since then, when I did that I did look at all the cpuid stuff and everything looked and sounded fine - gpu happy etc. Is the best route now check psu, then mboard? Thanks. If it’s not clear please consider me a moron in any response.
My old dell xps8500 has been going strong, a few new cards, drives, a new cmos battery and little else over the years (it’s never had new thermal paste, I’ve never touched the cpu tbh). Recently I went to plug in a usb device in one front USB port whilst another usb device was in another port and I accidentally picked up the end of the thing already plugged in and plugged it in again meaning both ends of one cable were plugged into 2 ports. I don’t think it turned off then though. Have i fried my motherboard in some sort of short circuit death as I now get about 10 seconds then it just powers off - no lights, no beeps just dead as a can of spam. I did put a cheap msata card in about 6 weeks ago but it’s been on fine maybe 10 times since then, when I did that I did look at all the cpuid stuff and everything looked and sounded fine - gpu happy etc. Is the best route now check psu, then mboard? Thanks. If it’s not clear please consider me a moron in any response.
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