Caltrops - American McGee's Honda Civic





	[quote name="Willdog"]I have an Antec ATX Mid Tower Case with a 450W Power Supply purchased in 2007. It houses a bunch of other components also purchased in 2007 (I've been very lazy about upgrading). About a month ago the power supply started emitting a high pitch whine whenever it was in plugged in and in standby whether or not the computer was actually powered on. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811129155 I'd been flipping off the standby switch to silence the whine when not using the computer. I waited and waited to replace it, and finally two weeks ago it failed. I came home one day, flipped it to standby, got no whine, and no power to the machine. I bought an Antec EA-650 650W ATX12V to replace it with the idea that once I start upgrading, I'll have enough power for current equipment. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371044 I replaced the power supply and the computer wouldn't power on. More to the point, the fans would shudder ever so slightly when pressed the power button, but nothing else would happen. The green LED on the Mboard is on, but nothing else reacts to the power switch. The ASUS P5N-E SLI motherboards only has to power connections, a 4 pin near the CPU and the main connection near the IDE sockets. Those are fine. I tried disconnecting the hard drives, and the fans did come on, got the "all clear" beep, but I didn't get a video signal. After about 10-15 seconds, I heard one more beep and the power shut off. I reconnected one hard drive, same thing. Reconnected both hard drives, no response, except for the fan shudder. I looked for that award BIOS beep code, but it's not listed. Nothing about 1 short beep followed later on be another short beep and power off. So long story short, did leaving a dying power supply in place for 4-6 weeks screw up my mboard, vidcard, or hard drives? I need to upgrade anyway, but I was hoping to do it on my schedule.[/quote]