Okay thanks for the help, just got back from bestbuy with a new CMOS battery and nothing. Nothing happens, the fans don't spin up, the HDD doesn't spin up, but if i put my ears close to the PSU i can hear a high frequency sound. I think it might be the MB, but I'm not sure. How do i check if my gpu is getting juice. I have re-plugged the power button connection into the MB but I'm not sure which way they go in. I have a replacement warranty on my MB but the closest fry's store is 2 hours away. damn. thanks. any more suggestions.Could be a bad PSU - might not have enough power to get the computer to boot.
Could be that the CMOS battery is dead - these don't often die out on you, but from time to time they do
Could be that something on the MB finally gave out
There are generally several things the problem could be, until you narrow your problem down. I know that my little brother's older computer, the MB lights would come on, but something was wrong with it and his computer wouldn't boot.
We first tried to swap out his PSU, just in case that was the problem, but that didn't fix anything. So we swapped out his MB and everything worked just fine after that.
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