I have an AMD Athalon 64 processor, K8V SE Deluxe mobo, windows XP sp2.
So I shut down the computer normally, and then when I go to turn it back on, it doesn't start.
At all. I press the button a few more times, and notice that the fans are starting up a little, but nothing else is.
So I rapidly press it many times, and it works. It was very weird, like I had to charge it up or some crazy thing like that. The monitor never goes on, and I start to hear a noise coming from the headphones. There is some lady saying "System failed CPU test" over and over again, non stop.
So I ask some friends, and I was told that the processor may need to be dusted out. So I dust it out, and while doing so I noticed how extremely dirty the two fans on the power supply were. I gently unscrewed it and placed it a few inches aside to get a better angle to clean the fans with a Q-tip.
I hook everything back up, and now it does not work at all. The fans dont budge one bit, nothing starts it up. I have checked all the cables, they are in their sockets properly.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what could have happened, and what can be done?