Help! My computer just shuted off and doesn't turn on

Yeah, a lot of DOAs isn't a good sign with power supplies.

 

hmm guess its fair to tell what happens at the end. Well the antec psu arrived in 5 days (2 day delay because of a late usps train not because of newegg). Well now my computers up and running again. Had so much wires though but a few ties and tunneling the wires to the side of my case fixed it so it doesn't look llike a jungle in my case and give better airflow. Felt really heavy, then again maybe not so heavy because i just worked out at the gym from school and got home but at least its much heavier then my old psu that came with the case.

 

Heavy is good. Means there's high quality electronics in there. I couldn't tip a balance with 3 Qtec 450W or Magna 600W PSUs against my old inWin 250W unit.

 

so i guess that 250w psu had really good quality?

oh yea how ironic, after my psu died and i got a new one to replace it so its good again, my cousin's 250w compaq psu died and took along his computer too (I'll replace at least everything except the dvd drive and hdd since I heard not to use old parts from a broken computer). Guess I'm lucky that the psu died by itself.

 

That's exactly my point, no trouble from it and it was quiet. The less can be said about the 450W Qtec that replaced it. My case was like your cousin's. Whole system destruction by PSUs is less common with OEM brand PSUs but not unheard of. You can check what works and what doesn't, but if anything makes any odd nosies or anything, bin it.

 

I've been using nexus psu's because they are quiet none of them have gone wrong yet
had a few cheap generic ones go pop on customers usually kills the motherboard when they go so spend a bit more and get something middle priced

 

Yeah, you know all about the problem then!

 

alrite guess I will try to test each part by part but I'll have to do so after the weekend becuase I have to go to a retreat this weekend.