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xGINCATx · Guru

RE: Computer Problem, Can anyone help?

Reef · Guru

Thanks mate, what about finding the psu and CMOS battery, what should be i looking for and also what about disconnecting them and replacing if needs be, is it simply unsrew a few things and replace?? lol :)

xGINCATx · Guru

CMOS battery is a silver battery, about the same circumference as a pound coin maybe a tiny bit bigger
Should be easy enough to find, there should be a little clip at the side to press in with a little screwdriver and it should just pop out
Remove it while having your power lead removed, wait some time (30 seconds should be sufficient)
Then put it back in, plug the power cable back in and try powering up again
When it doesn't work you know you will need a new PSU
Which brings me onto.....
Power supply, can't really miss it, it's where your kettle lead plugs in and is normally held in by 4 screws on the rear of the pc (where you plug your lead in)
Good luck bro

Reef · Guru

Ok so i finally found the time to get into the tower and now i know i need a new psu as i tried disconnected the CMOS battery and putting it back in but it didnt solve the problem, ive looked into a video regarding how to remove and install a new psu and it so easy so ill be doing it myself, cant believe the pc shops were trying to charge around the £100 mark,

anyway my question is what PSU do i need to buy as i heard in the pc shop i have to get one to suit the following specs of the tower itself, am i right?? could any one advise what psu to buy, nothing too fancy and expensive, one which does the job and which will last a while ;)

I tried to take a pic of my old psu but the writing is just too blury as ive messed up my 3gs at the minute so if you need the info ill write it out :)

xGINCATx · Guru

If it's a basic pc you won't need anything fancy
If it's for gaming then you'd need something with about more ooomph
Your board will probably have a 24 pin connector unless it's really old then it will require a 20 pin connection
How many hard drives/disk drives you running?

Reef · Guru

Photo 0060 1.jpg Its a basic PC mate, nothing special, it was bought from argos :)

Its only got one disc drive and as for hard drives im guessing one as well, as i dont know what the hardrive looks like lol, can you tell by the pic above mate??

and as for the connectors i bought the computed xmas last year so would you say its a 24 pin??

xGINCATx · Guru

Jeeeeeez look at the dust on your CPU cooler LOL
See that big chunk of wires going to the board? Count down one side of the connection box..
If there is 12 down one side then there will be a total of 24 wires, if there is 10 going down one side there is a total of 20 wires

Reef · Guru

haha i take it thats pretty bad then? ;) lol

just checked,Theres 24 mate, ????

xGINCATx · Guru

Haha yeah it's not the best sign, Think I had the same cooler on my old dual core 775 board
Was a right nightmare! It just made a blanket between the heatsink and fan, one day I took out all the dust and it went down about 10-15 degrees lol

A 300W PSU would be overkill IMO
Just ensure it's got a 24PIN ATX connection, a 4 pin CPU connection, and 2 sata power connectors (you could use a molex to sata connector, they're usually 99p)

eG x LoGiKzZ · Guru

thats a very basic pc haha, you wont need an expensive psu, can you see how many Watts the current psu is?

Seanyftw · Guru

Ok now you're just not making sense gingcat.

All you need is a bog standard ATX power supply reef, ATX means it has the connections you need, where i work we sell standard 500W PSUs for £19, you can fit it in 5 minutes it's simple as fúck.

Also what computer shops quoted you a ton for a PSU swap? **** we do it for £49 inc part and labour and do it while they ****ing wait lol, everyone seems particularly pleased at that part lol.

Just remember, ATX. Not that you would manage to get the wrong one anyway....it's a STANDARD for a reason :P

xGINCATx · Guru

Seanyftw wrote:
Ok now you're just not making sense gingcat.

If you're going to accuse someone of not making sence at least make sence yourself by using the correct spelling of ones name.

And £49 for a £10 PSU fitting? I've gotta get in on this business.. wink

Seanyftw · Guru

no they're 19 lol, not £10. To be fair though we're busy all the time and it's not bad price for an instant diagnosis and fix if you ask me.

xGINCATx · Guru

So you're saying if I walked into your shop and bought a £19 power supply your shop will have made zero profit?? No way
They'll have them for shed loads cheaper to cover stuff such as staff's wages, electric, renting the premises.
NO shop would be able to stay open in this climate if they sold everything at the prices they got them for and just 'hoped' the customers would want it fitting to make income..

Reef · Guru

well ill get all the dust out when i put the new psu in ;)

and ok cheers lads ill go buy one of them then :)

jayjay · DTR Senior Member

Hey up just what i said lol.. New PSU and ur up and running. I built my own gaming machine just before xmass 775 mobo... then bought a quad cpu Q9550 @ 2.83GHz but only bothered with one gig ram as cba to spend anymore on it even though i know it needs more ram.. But dose run very fast.

Calum122 · Guru

1Gb ram!! FML That's shocking! Seven needs at least 2! what OS are you running 95???

Ram is dirt cheap. Get 2Gb for £20

jayjay · DTR Senior Member

windows seven 32bit.. but dose run nice.. also plays fifa 12 nice smooth.. converts a avi file to dvd files in 20mins and then bruns it to dvd in 5mins or so.. bruns xbox360 games in like 30mins. Oh forgot to say i have an old gtx260 garphics card.. but hey dose the job..

Calum122 · Guru

jayjay wrote:
windows seven 32bit.. but dose run nice.. also plays fifa 12 nice smooth.. converts a avi file to dvd files in 20mins and then bruns it to dvd in 5mins or so.. bruns xbox360 games in like 30mins. Oh forgot to say i have an old gtx260 garphics card.. but hey dose the job..

Why! Erm Why????

Such a high end computer and you're running windows 32 bit?

You computer would caine most things you'd throw at it with a 64 bit op! IF you increase them memory.

Seanyftw · Guru

you guys realise there is no performance difference between the versions at all right? It's just the memory limitation.

Also W7 is stable as hell. No contest

jayjay · DTR Senior Member

Yep. I know that 32bit an 64bit are just for little extras like reading more RAM. That's why I'm not bothered if im using 32bit. But I hear that the new Windows 8 might have xbox360 app like xp mode on seven. But I don't think they will unless they launch the 720.

xGINCATx · Guru

Calum122 wrote:
Ram is dirt cheap. Get 2Gb for £20

Or free if you know the right people wink
Not paid for any RAM, CPU's SSD's, laptop harddrives, USB Drives in the last 6 years haha
Just been offered an i5 CPU but didn't want it as I've literally just built this one and don't want the agro of getting a new board, heatsink etc disbelief

jayjay · DTR Senior Member

well if you didnt want it id of had it for free lol.. but the newest pc's now have like 7/8 cores in them.. but they are to much £££ this cpu i got in mine cost me £155. The mobo cost me £40. but sold my old computer first then bought new bits.

xGINCATx · Guru

Haha nahh he'd understandably get abit pissed off if I made money off him or gave it away lol

Reef · Guru

OK so Ive finally got the new psu delivered, all nice and dented, but oh well if it works i dont mind ;) thanks ebuyer, nice packaging lol

Anyway First time fitting a psu, looked at some YouTube vids but im still not sure regarding a couple of wires, lol

Heres a link to pictures of the inside of the tower, the bits on the board which have no wires connected to them and pics of some of the wires from the psu which im unsure,

https://s1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee420/reefvodka/pc/?action=view&current=unknowncomingfromfrontofthetowerusbhpmikeetc.jpg#!oZZ1QQcurrentZZhttp%3A%2F%2Fs1226.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fee420%2Freefvodka%2Fpc%2F%3Faction%3Dview%26current%3Dbestover.jpg

Hopefully with my master paint skills your be able to work out what is what and be nice like you lot always are and let me know where everything goes :),

Ive placed numbers next to each connector so that you can easily state which wire goes where, for example number 0 to number 12 :)

As well when removing the old psu a couple weeks back i forgot where one cable goes, it comes from the front of the tower where the headphone and mike jack are, any ideas where it goes, there is a picture?? lol

Oh yeah as for the drive connectors coming from the psu i know which ones they are but don't know which one to use as you can see from the pic one has one connector coming off the drive connector and another has 2... lol :)

Also the key:

Red is no pin

Black is no hole nor pin :)

cheers lads

Seanyftw · Guru

told you on facebook, least you can do is stay online after you link me to this lol

jayjay · DTR Senior Member

Well that pic you took is fine Mine it kinda the same.. Them pins are for the case/tower little things like reset button harddrive light on tower that flashes and power on light.. maybe a few other things but nothing to really worrie about.. My motherboard never come with a user guide so I had to look up the name/make & model of my motherboard and download the user guide so I could see where them pins went on the board but for some reason I've not got the reset button working or the harddrive light put in the right place.. but cba to fiddle around with it lol.

jayjay · DTR Senior Member

Solongs your RAM, CPU, HDD and PSU are all connected up then them little pins i wouldnt worry to much about.. but if your the sorta person who likes it to work to a T then download a user guide or have a look on your new PSU on the little pins they should be named and the motherboard might be named or numbered so you might not understand the numbers or letters like A+ on one set of 6 pins and then A- on the other..