Dear All,
Looking for some advice on how to deal with a serious problem with my custom built PC. <all computer specs below>
With help from many of you, a newbie like me was able to build a pretty cool PC which I use for my home business. I leave this PC running all the time. Starting about a month ago, I noticed that the PC would occasionally crash over night. This was something new, which had never happened before.
On one occasion, the computer would not start up at all? when I pressed the on/off button absolutely nothing would happen. I was pretty freaked out? opened the case? jiggled things around? and then it started fine. About a week ago, when I was using it, it suddenly froze up and I had to restart it with the power switch. Anyway, I was worried about this, but it wasn?t causing me any serious problems. Last week, I tried to install a new hard drive (a 2nd drive). After I did this, I turned on the computer and nothing happened.
I removed the new drive, turned on the computer and nothing happened.
I checked all of the connections, turned on the computer and nothing happened.
I completely removed everything, started the computer with minimum hardware, nothing happened.
I removed the CPU, started the computer, and nothing happened. There is supposed to be an audio POST message (I left the speakers attached)? but nothing at all.
I called ASUS and they are going to do an advanced RMA for me, so I will get a new motherboard soon.
I put this computer together about 12 months ago. It has been running 24 hours a day since then, and I use it all the time.
What do you experts think? Which hardware item is the mostly like the cause of the failure? Motherboard? RAM? (I tried starting it with only one stick (first with one, then with the other), still nothing? Power supply? (I could see the green light on lit up on the motherboard?) Something else?
My current plan is to try everything with the new motherboard. If still nothing, then I don?t know what I will do? replace the power supply?
Thank you very much for all help!
quanttrade99z
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
ATI 100-435513 Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Antec NEOPOWER 480 ATX12V v2.0 480W Power Supply - Retail
Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory Model KVR400X64C3AK2/2G - Retail
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Antec Performance I P180 Silver 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis, 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail
NEC DVD Burner Black IDE Model ND-3520A-KIT-BLN - Retail
Looking for some advice on how to deal with a serious problem with my custom built PC. <all computer specs below>
With help from many of you, a newbie like me was able to build a pretty cool PC which I use for my home business. I leave this PC running all the time. Starting about a month ago, I noticed that the PC would occasionally crash over night. This was something new, which had never happened before.
On one occasion, the computer would not start up at all? when I pressed the on/off button absolutely nothing would happen. I was pretty freaked out? opened the case? jiggled things around? and then it started fine. About a week ago, when I was using it, it suddenly froze up and I had to restart it with the power switch. Anyway, I was worried about this, but it wasn?t causing me any serious problems. Last week, I tried to install a new hard drive (a 2nd drive). After I did this, I turned on the computer and nothing happened.
I removed the new drive, turned on the computer and nothing happened.
I checked all of the connections, turned on the computer and nothing happened.
I completely removed everything, started the computer with minimum hardware, nothing happened.
I removed the CPU, started the computer, and nothing happened. There is supposed to be an audio POST message (I left the speakers attached)? but nothing at all.
I called ASUS and they are going to do an advanced RMA for me, so I will get a new motherboard soon.
I put this computer together about 12 months ago. It has been running 24 hours a day since then, and I use it all the time.
What do you experts think? Which hardware item is the mostly like the cause of the failure? Motherboard? RAM? (I tried starting it with only one stick (first with one, then with the other), still nothing? Power supply? (I could see the green light on lit up on the motherboard?) Something else?
My current plan is to try everything with the new motherboard. If still nothing, then I don?t know what I will do? replace the power supply?
Thank you very much for all help!
quanttrade99z
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
ATI 100-435513 Radeon X800XL 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail
Antec NEOPOWER 480 ATX12V v2.0 480W Power Supply - Retail
Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) System Memory Model KVR400X64C3AK2/2G - Retail
Seagate Barracuda 7200.8 ST3200826AS 200GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Hard Drive - OEM
Antec Performance I P180 Silver 0.8mm cold rolled steel for durability through the majority of chassis, 1.0mm cold rolled steel around the 4x HDD area ATX Mid Tower Computer Case - Retail
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Toledo 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Dual Core Processor Model ADA4400CDBOX - Retail
NEC DVD Burner Black IDE Model ND-3520A-KIT-BLN - Retail
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