Hi Everyone I Have a DELL XPS 420 which i thought had a couple of viruses or other software problems. (I checked this by getting my brothers HD from his XPS 420 and booting off it) So I decided to re-install vista. Once I reinstalled it and...
Hi Everyone
I Have a DELL XPS 420 which i thought had a couple of viruses or other software problems. (I checked this by getting my brothers HD from his XPS 420 and booting off it) So I decided to re-install vista. Once I reinstalled it and booted up i went on to install my graphics card drivers for my Zotac Geforece 9800 GT. I left half way through to have dinner. I come back and find that my computer has turned off and the power led is now flashing amber. I unpleg it from the wall, let it use up its power and plug it back in. The computers fans turn on for a fraction of a second but they stop and the power led starts flashing again.
I take out my graphics card and it boots fine (however without a screen because I don't have onboard graphics). I turn off the computer and insert my first graphics card, an ATI Radion 3650 and again it boots fine. Again i take out the graphics card and put the zotac back in and like before it wont boot.
What Im really confused with is that nothing physical was done to the Zotac for it to stop working. The only other things that i could tell you is that the only other led besides the power led thats on when it wont boot is the network led.
EDIT: After a little more investigation i found that the powersupply wont pass its BISD test if its plugged into its the graphics card.
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