Help Please

[shady3000]

Hello, i'm having a problem with my computer.
I have a M2N-E SLI mobo with a AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core processor
Now yesterday i went to turn on my comp and the little power light on the mobo comes on but nothing will stay on when i push the power button, the fans and power supply run for a secong then nothing.
I took all my cards memory and drives out and was left with only the power supply, mobo, and proccesor, still the same thing.
Today i took out the processor and left everything else in and low and behold the comp turned and and kept running with no problem. When i put the psu back in i get the same problem with nuthing working.
So is my proccesor fried or is it my mobo? please help and thanks in advance

[Apoptosis]

sounds like your PSU might be bad... Do you have a volt meter to check it?

[DMB2000uk]

If you are ok with unplugging your PSU from everything, and jump starting it with a paper clip, we can see if the PSU will power up properly.

There's a guide on how to do it here:
http://www.overclock.net/faqs/96712-how ... y-psu.html

Just dont leave it running like that for more than a few seconds (once the fan has spun up and you know that it's working), as power supplies don't like to be run unloaded.

Dan

[shady3000]

dont have a volt meter, but i took out the heatsink and processor chip and now everything turns on and the comp runs fine.
i plug the heatsink fan in to the mobo and the fan ran fine and so did the comp, but then i put the chip back in and nothing at all

[Kougar]

I suppose it could be the processor, but I still think it is unlikely. What brand/model PSU is this?

No chance you have a second motherboard or CPU to test with?