Board 8 > Get home from trip. PC wont boot.

(+) Yeah! (+)

Argh.

motherboard has a random blinking green light, nothing else will move or show any signs of life. I am mildly confused.

So, does it power on? Are you getting to the BIOS screen?

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"What if you just eat vegetarians?"-neonreaper
"^ You are what you eat. ^_~"-Koiji

nope

my roommate suggested you could try different RAM. Other than that, the motherboard may be gone.

Out of my own curiosity, is the light labeled, and what motherboard do you have?

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"What if you just eat vegetarians?"-neonreaper
"^ You are what you eat. ^_~"-Koiji

Does it POST?

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See You In Another Life, Brother.

Out of my own curiosity, is the light labeled, and what motherboard do you have?

its the main power light thingy that is supposed to be perma-green anytime the motherboard has power. For whatever reason, they decided to stick it under the SATA ports, which actually makes it hard to see sometimes. I didnt even notice it was blinking til I moved the case a bit.

huh. Well, I'm not really sure.

Do any of your capacitors looked ruined?

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"What if you just eat vegetarians?"-neonreaper
"^ You are what you eat. ^_~"-Koiji

took PC outside, applied canned air liberally, checked connections and connectors and all that stuff for anything that looked abnormal or unplugged. Everything appeared in order. Brought back PC to room, blinking green light persists.

Yeah if it doesn't POST then it should do some number of beeps which tells you what's wrong

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So this is a...desktop?

Get a new power supply.

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Power supply, possibly? I remember you saying that your computer has gotten blackouts and power surges in the past. It is more likely the motherboard if the light is blinking in a predictable way (say, light on for 1 second, off 1 second, repeating rather than on for half a second, off 2 seconds, on 1.5 seconds, etc.).

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Power supply, possibly? I remember you saying that your computer has gotten blackouts and power surges in the past. It is more likely the motherboard if the light is blinking in a predictable way (say, light on for 1 second, off 1 second, repeating rather than on for half a second, off 2 seconds, on 1.5 seconds, etc.).


light is on-off-on-off-on-off in a very brief but consistent manner(I dont think I could call it a second, it blinks on a bit faster than a second).

my thinking right now is the appropriate route would be

buy new PSU
if it doesnt work->buy new ARGH

well now the blinking light is gone.

that would be good, except the problem still persists.

also since im shopping for a new PC(A contingency plan, i just kind of want to know what price im looking at in all scenarios), what in all hell happened to hard drive prices.

They skyrocketed.

Thailand flooded.

they'll go down eventually. Probably.

http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/11/25/224222/hard-drive-prices-up-150-in-less-than-two-months
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/11/12/21/0443248/hard-drive-prices-slide-as-thai-flood-aftermath-subsides

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"What if you just eat vegetarians?"-neonreaper
"^ You are what you eat. ^_~"-Koiji

ok contingency plan is going to have a temporary pass on a new HD.

damn thailand, why must you flood.

Just harvest the HD and drives from your old comp

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SuperNiceDog, you ain't no pimp dude

thats the plan. I was just starting run down on space a bit so I was going to be in the market for a new one within a year. Not happening anytime soon now.

i think its possible for me to get a decent build together for $500-600.

Thats not too bad.

(if anyone wants to put one together for me that'd be awesome)