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Hi, newbie here, hoping someone can help!
I put together a system recently........
Asus M2R32-MVP motherboard,
AMD Athlon64 dualcore 6000,
XFX GF 7200GS, Supporting 512MB DDR2, 256MB Graphics Card
Kingston 2 x 2 GB DDR II 800 MHz CL5 1.8 V RAM
3x Seagate SATA2 250 GB HDDs,
Liteon DVD RW drive,
Pinnaccle PCTV capture card
Creative soundblaster card
It all went together fine, I installed XP Home and XP Pro 64bit in dual boot mode on one of the HDDs partitioned 125GB/125GB one OS on each partition. It was all going fine, then last night I was using it and all of a sudden it just went dead. It will not boot, POST or anything now. Not even a beep. The green LED on the Motherboard is lit but that is the only sign of life.
I have removed the power supply (Hiper type M 580W) and all the voltages check out OK.
I strongly suspect the Motherboard is dead, but would appreciate any other suggestions, I don't want to be sending it back to Amazon and it turns out to be something else that is wrong.
Dan
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| Well I found pinouts for all the connectors and checked there was the correct voltage on each pin, but this was with the PSU out of the PC and no load. I am not sure how to check it under load, I presume you need a special adaptor.
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Oh I should have mentioned that I shorted the two pins together that turn on the PSU. all the pins were at 0v before I did that. I will try to get the PSU properly tested before I go any further.
Thanks for your input slipstream, I do appreciate it.
Dan
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No probs. Have you tried stripping the rig back down to the bare essentials? It could be duff RAM, a duff graphics card, a duff DVD drive or hard drive causing the protection circuits in the PSU to shut it down.
Alternatively, chuck a spare PSU in there if you have one and see what happens. You could try taking the PSU to a local system builder to have it checked out under load. Ask what they charge first though.
I am planning on pricing up a proper load tester for 600Watt PSUs at some stage just for giggles. I'd imagine it'd cost a lot more than most of us spend on a new PSU though. 
Cheers, Slipstreem. 
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| OK that quite a few things to look at, I will post again when I have done the checks you suggest
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Slippy your going to need very deep pockets to buy one.
Been looking myself, but can't find much about the various makes.
I missed one last year at an liquidation/ bankrupt auction, went for about £400, at the time it was way over my budget.
[size=1]DS3R: E8200:@3ghz :8800GTS-640mb.[/size]
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