[Novalug] Computer died after power failure

[rosejw at cox.net]

The breaker tripped.


---- Brandon Saxe <brandon20va at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Can you describe the power outage event in more
> detail? Did you just trip a breaker? Was it during a
> storm? 
> 
> I would think that just 'pulling the plug' would not
> harm the system, but a surge probably would.
> 
> 
> --- rosejw at cox.net wrote:
> 
> > I have a relatively new computer that seems to have
> > die the other day after a power failure.   After
> > doing some preliminary look I figured that maybe the
> > power failure burnt out the power supply.   So I got
> > a new power supply(corsair hx620w) and installed it,
> > yet computer still "seems" dead.
> > 
> > I say "seems" because the mother board does seem to
> > work, all the fans in the system power up and spin,
> > the DVD and cdrom drive doors open and close, but 
> > the heard seem to spin up, yet I get no power to the
> > keyboard(ps2) or mouse(usb) and nothing on the
> > monitor.   There are no beeps or anything from
> > motherboard(asus a8n-sli) and the cpu fan spins. 
> > I'm at a loss on where to even look now.  
> > 
> > I removed the sound card and tried again, no change.
> >  I removed the video card and sound card, but no
> > change.  I removed the cdrom and dvd drives, no
> > change.
> > 
> > It looks to me that the motherboard itself got
> > damaged, but I don't know for sure.
> > 
> > Any help I can get to try and find out what the real
> > problem is, I would appreciate it.    This machine
> > is not more than 2 years old.
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help you can provide.
> > 
> > -Jonathan
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