Computer Shut down

[Acoshi]

I was watching a tv show and chatting online when all of a sudden the computer crashed. The blue screen came up of course before and then it shut off.

I tried to turn it on but nothing came up on the screen. Everything seems turns on and works as if there was nothing wrong with the computer. But the only difference is that I don't hear the beep from the motherboard anymore. It just turns on and nothing comes up on the monitor.

I was wondering is it my motherboard or could it be my hard drives. I have two SATA drives that I RAIDed together over a week ago.

 

[powerMarkymark]

No beeps is not good.

Try reseating everything and report back.

 

[philler]

Do you have a little intellect on comp.'s? if you have, listen carefully...

To find out exactly what is wrong with your comp. you must do it by excluding your hardware bit by bit...

first you must take your mobo and all your other hardware out of the case, then you place the mobo on a static bag(if you have one, if not a cardboard box will do just fine). connect the Cpu and ram, after that you connect the psu to the mobo. now take a screwdriver and turn your mobo on(the pins is useally placed down in the right corner)if you don't know how to find the pins you must download a manual at your mobo's webside. if your psu doesn't turn on at all, when you turn your mobo on with the screwdriver, then it's most likely taht your mobo is burned off..

good luck ...

My regards
Philip

 

[Acoshi]

Ok, I will do those things but before I do I just want to make sure that there isn't any other way to fix it.

Could it be the motherboard battery is dead? Because I had my computer on for more than 4 days striaght.

Or is there another way to test to see if the motherboard is fried without taking it out of the case?

 

[gwarbot]

Nah,your mother board battery isn't dead , Take you video card and put in a defferent one or try the onboard video of you have that. LMK what happens

 

[Abix]

There sorta is a way to see if the board is bad without taking it out. All you gotta do is take out all non-necessary cards(that means everything but you video card[unless you have onboard video]), unplugging all hard drives, and cdrom drives from the board. When youre done all you should have connected is your video, RAM, CPU, and the power to your motherboard.

At that point, clear the CMOS(check your mobo manual on where the jumper is), and then give it a go.

If it POSTs, then the problem is with one of your other components. Plug em in one by one till it breaks.

If it doesnt POST, then its *probably* the mobo. Before you toss it out the window though, try a new vid card and powersupply(chances are that the CPU didnt go out in a BSOD and thats why I dont think its neccessary to test it).

Good luck.

 

[PCHPlayer]

I wouldn't go to the extreme of removing the motherboard from the case at first. Try unhooking everything non-essential first. Take out all but one stick of memory, unplug your CD/DVD/Harddrives, remove any modems, soundcards etc. and see if you can get it POST. If it won't boot, try swapping the memory sticks. If it still won't boot, you can either try another power supply (if you have one) or do as philler suggests and try it outside the case. Running outside the case helps to diagnose short-circuits.
Unfortunately, it sounds like something went wrong and you just need a good diagnostic session to figure it out. Good Luck.
Oh and check for bulging capacitors on the motherboard, seems there has been alot of problems with them of late.

[Edit] Abix beat me to the punch [/Edit]

 

[Acoshi]

I have tried what u guys suggested and I was able to get it fixed. THANK YOU!

The only problem with it is that it didn't have a problem. You see I took everything out of it and put one thing in at a time (to find the perpherial that was acting up) and at first I thought it was the hard drive but after a couple of restarts it worked then I did the sound card and it worked. Then I did the ram and after a couple of restarts it worked. Then I added the optical drives last and took a couple of restarts and it worked.

Now my question is what the heck could have happened if nothing was actually the matter with it? This is very baffling to me because I thought it was a bunch of things and turned out to be nothing. Has anyone else had this problem? Or can anyone explain what might have been the problem and if I can prevent it from happening again.

 

[PCHPlayer]

What do you mean "a couple of restarts"? If all is well, chances are something just wiggled loose, like your sound card, the hard drive cable or one of the memory sticks.
In either case, glad we helped to solve the problem.