Okay, first off, I know virtually nothing about comp hardware. That being said, here's my problem!
With the help of my boyfriend, who's pretty tech saavy, I was able to buy a new motherboard/cpu combo, case (mine was non-standard), and got some DDR. We transfered over my 30 + 6 gig hd (Maxtor), floppy drive, zip drive, cd drive, and video card. After hooking everything up, we turned on the power, and the heatsink fan turned maybe half a cycle (at most), and then stopped. Nothing else powered up. The comp can't be turned on via the power switch in the front, or in the back. Once the comp's been switched on, after the fan goes on for a sec and dies, it can't be started again unless we unplug the machine from the wall. I don't think it's a problem with the power supply itself because I bought it included with the case.
I've got an Amd Athalon XP 1500 cpu, with two ddr and two sdram slots. it's an Motherboard combo PC chips 830LR... I don't know what that last part means. Oof.
My boyfriend thinks that there's a power short happening somewhere on the motherboard, which I agree with, but we don't know WHERE. I don't have any measuring tools or anything like that to help me out. I've seen this question once or twice on here, but I'm not sure if the problem is the same, and if it is, the answers are too technically worded for me to understand. Sorry, I feel like an idiot, but could someone help in layman's terms? I'd really appreciate it.
With the help of my boyfriend, who's pretty tech saavy, I was able to buy a new motherboard/cpu combo, case (mine was non-standard), and got some DDR. We transfered over my 30 + 6 gig hd (Maxtor), floppy drive, zip drive, cd drive, and video card. After hooking everything up, we turned on the power, and the heatsink fan turned maybe half a cycle (at most), and then stopped. Nothing else powered up. The comp can't be turned on via the power switch in the front, or in the back. Once the comp's been switched on, after the fan goes on for a sec and dies, it can't be started again unless we unplug the machine from the wall. I don't think it's a problem with the power supply itself because I bought it included with the case.
I've got an Amd Athalon XP 1500 cpu, with two ddr and two sdram slots. it's an Motherboard combo PC chips 830LR... I don't know what that last part means. Oof.
My boyfriend thinks that there's a power short happening somewhere on the motherboard, which I agree with, but we don't know WHERE. I don't have any measuring tools or anything like that to help me out. I've seen this question once or twice on here, but I'm not sure if the problem is the same, and if it is, the answers are too technically worded for me to understand. Sorry, I feel like an idiot, but could someone help in layman's terms? I'd really appreciate it.