Ok. It was working fine this morning. I wanted to transfer a few files over to my old 486 so I was RARing them and sticking em on floppies. I tried to load up a few other programs at the same time and WinRAR complained and then froze. So, thinking nothing of it, I rebooted. But it didn't turn back on.
So far, this is what I've tried:
I have disconnected and/or reconnected all of the following:
Hard Drive
All other IDE devices
Floppy Drive
Modem
Sound Card
3D Accelerator
Network Card
Memory
CMOS Battery
I also reset the CMOS jumper and then returned it to its previous position.
I have a Duron 800 system with an ABIT KT7A RAID mobo. I have 3 sticks of memory (1 128MB, 2 64MB), all PC100.
I swapped out the mobo/cpu and threw in my old P5A/K6-3 450 combo in order to post this. I put all my cards back in and everything works. So I can only assume that the problem lies in one of two things: the motherboard or the CPU.
I'm currently leaning towards believing it's the bios chip that's the problem.
More detailed symptoms:
When you turn it on, the monitor does not move out of suspend mode so it isn't receiving a video signal of any kind.
You can't turn it off with the normal power button by just pressing it once like normal. You have to either turn it off with the ATX power supply switch or by pressing and holding the power button for 4 seconds.
Hard drive LED goes on for an instant right after trying powering on, but only if it is connected. I doubt that that is relevant but I mentioned it anyway.
Power LED stays on but nothing happens. All fans are on. CPU temperature was an acceptable 39 degrees C before the problem.
CPU is not overclocked and never has been.
I'm going absolutely nuts trying to figure out what's wrong. Please note that I only go to the local computer shop if I ABSOLUTELY must, so please don't tell me to.
So far, this is what I've tried:
I have disconnected and/or reconnected all of the following:
Hard Drive
All other IDE devices
Floppy Drive
Modem
Sound Card
3D Accelerator
Network Card
Memory
CMOS Battery
I also reset the CMOS jumper and then returned it to its previous position.
I have a Duron 800 system with an ABIT KT7A RAID mobo. I have 3 sticks of memory (1 128MB, 2 64MB), all PC100.
I swapped out the mobo/cpu and threw in my old P5A/K6-3 450 combo in order to post this. I put all my cards back in and everything works. So I can only assume that the problem lies in one of two things: the motherboard or the CPU.
I'm currently leaning towards believing it's the bios chip that's the problem.
More detailed symptoms:
When you turn it on, the monitor does not move out of suspend mode so it isn't receiving a video signal of any kind.
You can't turn it off with the normal power button by just pressing it once like normal. You have to either turn it off with the ATX power supply switch or by pressing and holding the power button for 4 seconds.
Hard drive LED goes on for an instant right after trying powering on, but only if it is connected. I doubt that that is relevant but I mentioned it anyway.
Power LED stays on but nothing happens. All fans are on. CPU temperature was an acceptable 39 degrees C before the problem.
CPU is not overclocked and never has been.
I'm going absolutely nuts trying to figure out what's wrong. Please note that I only go to the local computer shop if I ABSOLUTELY must, so please don't tell me to.
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