[Hello_Moto]

Thanks for this mate, I'm planning on trying everything out later tonight or first thing tomorrow morning.

How can you remember all this stuff anyway !

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When I built my new system back in Febuary it kept freezing, even in BIOS. I thought it was the motherboard, but you know how it is, when I took it back to the shop it worked just fine. When I got home if froze up again, by this stage I changed just about everything with parts from my old computer trying to track down the fault.

Then it clicked, I got out the multimeter and found I was getting line power of 225v rather than a nominal 240v (the shop was getting 237v), time to invest in a top end PSU.

When you have problems like that, you don't forget easily !!

[Kurt_Aust]

When I built my new system back in Febuary it kept freezing, even in BIOS. I thought it was the motherboard, but you know how it is, when I took it back to the shop it worked just fine. When I got home if froze up again, by this stage I changed just about everything with parts from my old computer trying to track down the fault.

Then it clicked, I got out the multimeter and found I was getting line power of 225v rather than a nominal 240v (the shop was getting 237v), time to invest in a top end PSU.

When you have problems like that, you don't forget easily !!

[Hello_Moto]

Thanks for your help with this, but everything I try to do, it still doesn't work ! Looks like the motherboard is gone.

[Kurt_Aust]

I'd suggest you take the motherboard into the shop you bought the PSU from. If they're halfway decent they'll quickly check it for you, it's only a five minute job.

[freespace2pilot]

Hi,

On this same topic again - what's the chances of the PSU having fried the motherboard too ??

Cheers

when my psu went, it fried my motherboard, and most everything else, to a molten plastic slag heap.