Little Help? My computers acting funny

[TokyoMurphy]

I just got a new computer from a buddy of mine and he said it runs fine, but it just needed to be formatted. I got the computer back to my house and plugged it up and when I hit the power button, to my dismay, I got a sound similar to the one of when your monitors turning off (the condensing, descending kind of sound) and thats all that happens. The light doesn't come on and it doesnt go into bio or anything. Any ideas? Thank you

[dicecca112]

specs?

[DMB2000uk]

It could be that the power supply died due to the transit of the PC.

Unplug all PSU cables from the motherboard and drives etc. Then with a bent paperclip (or similar) find a green and black wire on the 20/24 pin connector and jump them together (with the PSU off at this point). Then turn it on for no more than a couple of seconds and see if the PSU starts up (the fan will whirr). If it doesn't then your PSU is dead. IF it does, post back and we'll try something else.

Dan

[werty316]

Recheck all of the power cables.

[skier]

i had seemingly the exact problem,if your PSU works fine, a good possibility is the motherboard is bad, or is set wrong, check all the jumpers and clear the CMOS battery, also only plug in the minimal amount of hardware(no cd/dvd drive/floppy/excess PCI cards)

[TokyoMurphy]

Sorry it took me a couple days to reply, and I'm also sorry because I am kind of hardware illiterate. I did unplug everything and tried to turn it on but that was a no go. I'm not exactly sure what the 20/24 pin thing is, or else I would have tried the paperclip trick. I don't know if this helps at all, but I have two power switches, one on the back,a flip switch, and the one on the front. When the one on the back is in the on position a light yellow light comes on inside the computer on the wall. Thanks for all your help so far, it is greatly appreciated.