dead motherboard?

[herkulease]

alright guys, my friend she bought a system a few years back and couple of days ago ran into issues.

I know there's power being feed to the board as the cpu fan runs but there is absolutely no error beeps. taken out memory, video card nothing. the manual lists there is regular error beeps and also it has voice prompts on certain things. I get nothing.

In most cases I'd say go buy a new one, but I have never dealt with a rambus supported motherboard. I don't believe there would be anything different. Is there?

I don't even know off the top of my head if abit, asus, intel are even still making rambus supported boards.

adding more info
I get nothing on screen either. intially thought bad video card, then bad agp, grabbed a pci video card I have, nothing either.

then I tired taking out memory, video card and other things.

 

[Mucker]

Doesn't sound good. From what I understand, no Beep, no board. Here is a great deal on a new P4 board. Will need new ram though: http://www.geeks.com/details.asp?invtid=AX4C-G-J&sourceid=qIa2QiemsDAdAkmzaUzf

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[PENNSYLVANIARON]

hi:

As we know it can be a hundred different causes. I have been building machines since the late 80's. First thing is try to boot with the mobo out of the case. If that is not feasible then start with the most vanilla system you can. Then its just a process of elimination. You have already switched video cards so thats not it.

Boot with just 1 stick of memory if using 2. Use different slots. Unplug the hard drive, floppy and everything ext. to the case such as mouse, keyboard, lan, usb stuff etc.

Then try swapping the pwr. supply. Lastly I would swap the bios chip but for most thats not feasible. One time it was the connector to the hard drive. Another time it was the keyboard. Both those times it was things you really don't expect. Hopefully you can get it to post. If not its probably a bad mobo. I dont say that too easily because I have built over 200 systems and have only had 1 bad mobo. It was an AMI (which I only used until the taiwanese mobos became prevelent). I hear alot on the forums about bad mobos but most times its the unexpected. Good luck...