Sounds like a "classic" defective unit to me.  It happens due to the new way they are made these days ...progress my eye!  Sorry to hear.  www.tigerdirect.com has some slendid buys this time of year!  (Fact:  One in every 12 PS is defective on low end Power Supply makers.  Gotta get quality these days or you'll just find yourself back at the store buying another.  (You can use a tester and check each of the outputs, but I'm willing to place bets that it is defective) ....I learned the hard way about Power Supplies and economics.  You need to spend about $50 bucks (mine went for nearly $90.00USD), to get one that will stand up to 24/7 usage.  (Or at least that is how it works for my machines).

Get more wattage than you need.  (I have a 550w stuffed into my box when a 300w would have been plenty.  It also came with overload protection, THREE fans, and circuitry that keeps my computer 'eating' a constant 120volts @ 60cycles.  I loved it so every computer in the house is now using one ...and has the 'fancy' blue LEDS in the rear fan.  (Makes a great nitelight to boot!

Cheers

  The first place I would start is to meter the P.S. without things hooked up and see if the voltages are present and if so then I would plug in all connection and check voltages again. I have seen where plugs appear to be connected but are not also I have had my big hand loosen things that I was not working on and cause  a new problem.Also some power supply's have several plugs to work with different models, so I always double check to make sure I have the correct plug connected.New puter P.S. goes bad and new one doesn't work either? something is strange....but you already knew that....LOL
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In times past I've had the pleasure of going through 9 PS units ($45.00US each) before finally getting one that would hold up for more than 60 seconds.  That's when I started getting the high-end units, and my problems stopped.  Presently I am using a "CoolMax" high-end with all the bells and whistles and love it.  Built in Surge Protection, Conditions the power for a constant 120vac @ 60cycles, and blue LEDS 'to boot' on the rear fan!  (too cool for a Reverend ...heheh).

After all, everything in your 'can' is using power right?  Heck yeah.  So, it is only going to run as well as the 'juice' that it is getting.  Funky power = funky output = higher maintenance.  Every since I dumped this tri-fan-"does-everything"-jobber into my box I've never had a lick of trouble ...notta.  (knock on wood).  Same goes for the other PCs under my roof.

To me, building a system starts at the House Power Panel.  Our four computers are fed  "conditioned" power (all on separate Circuit Breakers too ...same "leg" and 'common ground' too *mechanical ground that is)), and that has gone a very long way in giving us an extremely stable (Intranet/Internet) system with NO component failures (yet).  It really makes a noticeable difference so I am pleased with that part of the entire investment (upgrade).  Battery Backups on all PCs, Router, and even the SAT-COM is a luxury since the power is "wild" where we live.  By the time the generator fires up the batteries are still at nearly 100% (big UPS's though ...I think 350's would have been plenty).

Just installed HDD coolers with twin fans last night on all the PCs, (but I turned the fans around to draw the heated air away from the HDDS instead of packing dust into them.  Dunno if it's wasted bucks or not, but I'll let you know as soon as I get enough numbers to 'average'.  I can say the HDDS are running quieter than before, (no 'bearing' noise anymore).

Cheers

"The Rev"

Email to company:  

After purchasing a new power supply, and the computer still not powering up, I'm going to ship the computer back to you.  I spoke with a technician today, only to find my questions un-answered.  I was told to remove the cpu, and put it back in place, clear the cmos, etc.  No results came of this.  He wasn't of much help, and seemed quick to end the conversation.  My computer WILL NOT turn on at all.  Please ship back the computer fixed, and with the new cases that you are selling.  It looks more cooling-efficient.  

I want to remain a loyal customer, and was hoping to purchase from you in the near future, but I'm not satisfied.  Hopefully, you can compensate for this situation, by upgrading the processor to a P4 3.4 GHz, and the video card to a Radeon 9800XT.  The upgrades I did pay for included a floppy drive, modem, 120 GB HDD, and Radeon 9600 256 MB.  

If you could ship the computer back to me in a short amount of time, it would be greatly appreciated.  I need this computer badly.  Thanks.




 

Trillian is a very safe chat program, and can use aim, msn, icq, and yahoo all at once.  It also takes up very little system recources.  I prefer AIM.  But, I would not recomment installing the latest versions of it.  Here's the perfect version of AIM, which is the only version I will use.  It's an older one, indeed, but it works the same, and has no spyware.

Here's the link to it:  http://www.oldversion.com/downloadx/aim553572.exe

I doubt the company will compensate for the situation.  All I really want is my computer back before the new year.  It's going to take 5-6 days for them to recieve it, hopefully 2-3 for them getting around to fixing (or replacing) it, and 5-6 days for me to recieve it.  

-Greg

Wow, that sure is a hefty number of intrusion attempts.  I wouldn't be able to cope with that!

*I replied to your e-mail.

  Greg

When the company you are dealing with treats you with little or no care, then I could honestly care less about how "decent" I am being with them.  Tech support rushed the hell out of me, they take days to reply emails, and from other signs they've given me, I can tell that there's no way in hell that they care about customer satisfaction.  And when I said that I paid for upgrades, it ment that I spent more money to upgrade the poor products they had to offer.