Computer Crashed, Will Power Fans up, but nothing else :(

[LordBerekHalfhand]

I was playing Klingon Academy last night, about to take on a Warbird and the game froze... I was like, ...

So I tried restarting. It wouldnt restart. I shut it down, then turned it back on and all that would work was the fans and the power light, that was it. I could eject the DVD-ROM, but nothing else seemed to work... I couldnt heard the Hard Drives boot up either.

I have the MSI K7T Pro Motherboard with the 4 indicator lights and they were all red... although twice when I tried starting it up the 2 one was green which indicated a keyboard initialazion... but all the other tries they were all red.

According to MSI that means it was either a CPU failure, or a Battery Discharge.

I THINK it's the CPU... but I dunno, I sure hope it's just that or the battery, nothing more serious like the MOBO.

I did unplug all the HD's and Cdroms to see if something was causing a problem and that wasn't. However, I didnt unplug the ram or the video cards and such... I think the mobo would have complained with those lights if one of those things were wrong and it didnt.

Everything in the system is less than a year old -

Specs -

Thunderbird 750 CPU
MSI K7T PRO MOBO
256 Megs Micron SDRAM
Full Tower 300Watt Antec PS
Adequate cooling... (All fans were running including PS fan)
Bios settings were optimal, a little overclocking on the FSB but only 7Mhz
Maxtor HD's
Panasonic DVD 12x
Generic FD
Geforce GTS
SBLive
NIC Card
All the extras such as the monitor and keyboard (Which worked... the monitor anyway)

Yes, I can test these things on other systems but that would be a royal pain because the CPU Heatsink (FOP32) was a pain to get on, that maybe was the problem. It caused pressure that eventually built up (After a year) on the cpu and finally cracked the CPU or something...) taking it off and on and off would probably crack the core for sure .

I just want to know what is the probable cause so I can get the part replaced. If there is anything else that I missed, let me know plz. Thnx!

 

[LordBerekHalfhand]

Also,

Nothing triggers the monitor to react, so that doesn't get detected.

Anyone help me out plz?

 

[Barefoot]

Well, I'm probably not an expert, but I'm leaning more towards the CMOS battery failing. A dead CPU would not allow your computer to even turn on, because with the ATX power supplies, they rely on the PWR_GOOD signal from the CPU to continue with the power-on process. If the CPU is not receiving the proper voltage from the PSU, or if the CPU has died, then it will not return the PWR_GOOD signal, and your computer will not even make a sound. So it is probably something relating to the CMOS battery. You may have to get a new battery - I'm not sure - but I can't tell you anything about whether or not your BIOS is still intact. You'd have to ask someone with more knowledge than I have.

 

[LordBerekHalfhand]

Anyone else confirm the Battery theory?

I was in the middle of a game... then the game crashed. So I dont see how that could be the CMOS battery.

I couldn't restart... the button even on the computer case wouldn't let me. I then shut it down, and when I powered it back up, nothing did anything except power the fans and like the cdrom.

 

[BlueTDimly]

Did you clear the CMOS?

 

[LordBerekHalfhand]

Yep, did that...

 

[LordBerekHalfhand]

But even so... how would clearing it help?

I was in the middle of a game... it wasn't as if I was messing around in the bios at the time or whatever

Thnx though for the comment.

 

[CapNjacK]

Honestly sounds like the CPU. Did you maybe get a lil excited at the game and jossle your case? I'd say a. you jossled it and now the cpu is loose somehow (not likely) or b. something else is wrong with the CPU I don't mean to be so generic but I don't want to tell you it's dead. Try reseating it. If you have the option try another CPU in there b4 you mess with anything else. One more thing do you think you could have some sort of power issue?? Maybe you're running too many fans?

 

[LordBerekHalfhand]

It's possible...

but,

I have had this configuration for almost a year now and haven't changed a thing... didnt jossle it either.

For almost a year nothing has gone wrong, then I start a game and Poof.

So I'm thinking that the CPU just gave out... could be that FOP32 that put so much pressure on the core that it finally cracked or something.

 

[BadNewsBears]

Oneday I was looking inside my case admiring m celery stick proccessor and saw a dust bunny. I reached for it (BAd idea!) guess what my old f*cked harddrive got polugged in and fried the WHOLE THING i ened up with a new h/d mobo and for some strange reason a joystick

 

[DARRIN]

Don't think it is the battery. That would not have killed it during a game. Have you pulled out all your cards except for the video and tried booting? I had a bad modem that caused similar symptoms.

 

[LordBerekHalfhand]

Well, I unplugged everything, checked the RAM... but didnt move the video or sound cards... the NIC card did light up when I tried to turn the comp on as well as the cdrom and fans.

The D-LED lights on the mobo suggest CPU or Discharged Battery...