I'm with Jason on this - I'd be looking mighty hard at that PCCHIPS motherboard. I've had some tough luck stories with PCCHIPS products, and your comment about the "failed Kingston ValueRAM" makes me suspect even more.
Yank everything from the case: drives, motherboard, PSU, vid card, etc. and put it out on a table. then "re-build" the PC from it's guts right out on the table. Start with just the mbd/cpu/ram/vid (if it's got built-in vid, leave off the vid card) and see if you get a boot to BIOS. Then leave it sit, running, just at the BIOS level for at least several hours, 24 if possible, to see if it barfs. If it barfs, then you have a limited set of components to have to swap out. Frankly, I'd start by swapping out the mbd. and jamming cpu/ram into the alternate. But yes, it's possible you could find it's the PSU. 350W units these days can be pretty cheap. But for the load you're putting on it, it would have to be MIGHTY wimpy or simply defective to fail. By the way, what IS the brand name on the PSU? JKB On Mon, 2006-06-19 at 17:47 -0400, Jason Tower wrote: > unless you ordered a $100 epox board and newegg shipped you a $30 pc chips > board, i fail to see how you can blame the vendor. > > > At any rate, my high esteem for NewEgg is gradually slipping... > > > > Cheers, > > ~Brian > > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
