Power Supply Problem

[wezbo1552]

Hello, today my friend bought a new video card and tried installing it by himself. He called me up and said his computer would not start up so I went over to his house and checked it out. I looked at the power supply and in the back of his PC there was a blinking green light. I found out that his new video card required a wattage of 300 and his power supply only went up to 215w. My question is could he have fried the video card or motherboard?

 

[rohan23]

I doubt he fried it. His system just won't power up because of the power requirement not being met.

 

[wezbo1552]

I forgot to add that his system won't even start up without the new video card in it.

 

[MNI-SmellyCakes]

did you put the old video card back into it?

if so, you could have damaged something.

 

[wezbo1552]

He never had an old video card, his graphics were integrated. My guess was that his power supply is broken now, but I'm not sure what else could be broke.

 

[Austinn1]

Check and double check all the wires man. 9 out of 10 times a wire is loose.