I built the following about a month ago:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz
Scythe SCMNJ-1000 80mm Sleeve "NINJA MINI" CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400
A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB
AVerMedia AVerTV Combo PCIe
LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16x
Antec Fusion Remote Black
The only problem I have had is that VMC would randomly stop playing any kind of video (ripped dvd, live tv, etc.) and display an error message stating that VMC did not have some necessary component to play the video. This was frustrating, but I assumed it was codec related, although I haven?t installed that many of them. Just PowerDVD, ffdshow, MPC/V, and hali media splitter.
So today I turned the htpc off. Then later went to turn it back on again and it is just totally dead . The fans turn on, the little blue light on the front turns on, the blu ray drive turns on, but that is it. No bios, no beeps, no nothing. Just some lights and the fans spinning.
So after work I had planned to reset the CMOS and see if it would boot. But I didn?t have to. It just worked again, booted into vista and everything.
I then reinstalled vista in the hopes that it would fix the video playback issues. And, of course, after the reinstall the thing would not boot again. Again, just fans and lights, no video or beeps at all.
So what on earth is going on? Could this be heat related? I have been using speedfan and never saw a temp above 40C. Could the motherboard or power supply be bad? I want to figure out if this is hardware related so I can RMA it before I run out of time.
Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help.
-Seth
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 Wolfdale 2.8GHz
Scythe SCMNJ-1000 80mm Sleeve "NINJA MINI" CPU Cooler
GIGABYTE GA-E7AUM-DS2H LGA 775 NVIDIA GeForce 9400
A-DATA 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Western Digital Caviar SE16 WD6400AAKS 640GB
AVerMedia AVerTV Combo PCIe
LG Black Blu-ray/HD DVD-ROM & 16x
Antec Fusion Remote Black
The only problem I have had is that VMC would randomly stop playing any kind of video (ripped dvd, live tv, etc.) and display an error message stating that VMC did not have some necessary component to play the video. This was frustrating, but I assumed it was codec related, although I haven?t installed that many of them. Just PowerDVD, ffdshow, MPC/V, and hali media splitter.
So today I turned the htpc off. Then later went to turn it back on again and it is just totally dead . The fans turn on, the little blue light on the front turns on, the blu ray drive turns on, but that is it. No bios, no beeps, no nothing. Just some lights and the fans spinning.
So after work I had planned to reset the CMOS and see if it would boot. But I didn?t have to. It just worked again, booted into vista and everything.
I then reinstalled vista in the hopes that it would fix the video playback issues. And, of course, after the reinstall the thing would not boot again. Again, just fans and lights, no video or beeps at all.
So what on earth is going on? Could this be heat related? I have been using speedfan and never saw a temp above 40C. Could the motherboard or power supply be bad? I want to figure out if this is hardware related so I can RMA it before I run out of time.
Sorry for the long post and thanks for any help.
-Seth
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