So my wife woke me up at 3am cause she hears a ringing noise from down stairs… I thought it was my work pager, but as I walked past the HTPC, it was diffently coming from it. Actually, it was from the UPS that the HTPC was plugged into. I hit the reset, which stopped the noise, and got me a green light on the UPS. I noticed that the HTPC was off – so I pushed the power button, but nothing. I checked the switch on the back of the power supply (not sure why…) and tried the power button again. I then swapped the power cord into the tv outlet after trying out the tv (which got power) and tried it again – still nothing. I held it down for 10 seconds – nothing. Not a noise/light/anything.
My initial thought is the power supply is shot. I’ve got a 380 Seasonic on a server I’ve been putting together I can pull out to try. Other than that, I’m not sure what would be the cause – could it be the motherboard? Or the switch in the case?
Thanks!
Here is my system:
MSI K9N socket AM2 motherboard
AMD A64 X2 4850e 2.5GHz cpu
HIS HD 4670 video card
3GB DDR2 800 RAM in dual channel
Uneed X11 rev. 1 case w/ VFD&IR & rev. 2 HD cage
Cosair 520W power supply
Mitsumi floppy w/ USB 2.0 card reader built in
Seagate 160GB hard drive (OS/docs)
WD GP 750GB hard drive (videos)
WD GP 1TB hard drive (videos)
LG GGC-H20L BD/HD player/DVD Burner
PVR-500 MCE dual analog tuner
DVICO FusionHDTV Lite HD tuner
Vbox Cat’s Eye 150 HD tuner
XP Pro w/ SP3, SageTV 6.4.8, SageMC 6.3.8a, Catalyst 8.10 driver, purevideo decoder 1.02-223
Video to Westinghouse 32″ LCD via DVI and sound via SPDIF to Pioneer receiver
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