FIXED - Is my CPU dead ? - FIXED

[VoodooChild]

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I have an Asus A7V133 motherboard based computer which worked fine till I shut it down routinely at night, the next morning it refused to come back on. The standby led on the motherboard lights up but I am unable to start the system
I've checked all parts except for the Motherboard and the CPU
The frustrating part is that I get no audible beeps or any other indication that something is wrong
I was using it fine till I shut it down and later tried to restart (It just wont respond) I even checked the Power On switch on the Case! but its fine.
Could my CPU be dead!!! (should'nt the Motherboard beep or give some indication if thats the case)
I have never overclocked this board.
I cant seem to figure out whats wrong, any help will be appreciated.

My Config :
---------------------------------------------------------------------WIndows 2000 SP2
ASUS A7V133 Rev 1.05 (BIOS 1004)
AMD Duron 850 MHz
GlobalWIN WBK38 CPU Cooler
Mushkin 256MB PC133 SDRAM CAS2
nVIDIA GeForce2 MX 32MB
Guillemot Maxi Sound Fortissimo Sound Card
D-Link 538TX 10/100 Ethernet
IBM 75GXP 30GB Hard Disk Drive
Sony CRX-160E CD-R/RW
Enlight EN-8254942 (HPC-250-101 REV:C) 250Watt Power Supply
---------------------------------------------------------------------

 

[FrankWhite]

I had the same problem with my machine. It turned out to be the power supply. I didnt figure that out right away because the board was getting juice (ie leds, and the power supply fan was turning). I did notice that there were no beeps, and I am pretty sure you should get beeps no matter what (different beeps depending on the problem). If you have an extra power supply laying around you can usually just strectch the cable to the MB without removing the old one as a test. I thought I burned out my proc but was relieved to find it was only the cheapo power supply I purchased!

 

[AMDPwred]

I have been having the same problem. I just ordered an Antec SX1030 because I too think it's my cheapo case I have. Some generic POS.

 

[VoodooChild]

Ok now i've got my system working again.
A friend suggested I press the insert key while powering on the system and lo & behold the system came to life (I had also cleared the CMOS before)if only once. After I tried to reboot to make sure everything was all right only the fans came on and the system gave out one long and three short beeps (Indicating a video error). So I removed my video card and reseated it into the AGP slot, tried to reboot but no success (the fans were spinning though). Hmm.. I now removed all cards from my machine except for the video & removed all cooling fans except for the cpu & chipset coolers.
Restarted and voila! the system is up and running except for the Sound card which refuses to be recognised in Windows. Adding the remaining two fans causes the system to not post (I suspect the culprit is the 250 Watt power supply which has a max load of 125Watt when both 5V and 3.3v are used)

Any suggestions how to get my sound card working again, also is my power supply damaged due to its diminished capability now (since its now not able to support the fans it did earlier)

 

[VoodooChild]

The problem with my system not starting was very aggressive memory settings (I've solved that now)
Also got my sound card working (it did not like the PCI slot it was in)