help me before i shoot myself

[nikko]

Ok, I'm at a complete loss for how to trouble-shoot my system. I'm on the verge of pitching out the window, though I live on the ground floor so I'm afraid it won't do as much damage as I would like. I was running a Athlon XP 1800 on a K7S5A mobo with 2 sticks of 256 MB of PC133 RAM and an A+ 400 Watt power supply. I was getting frequent lock-ups during games, and the feedback I got at the time was that the K7S5A sometimes will do that as result of having 2 sticks instead of just one. Fine. I figured if I'm gonna upgrade the memory, I may as well get the faster stuff, so I orderd at 512 MB of PC2100 Crucial RAM. At the same time, I decided to get a new case which came with it's own power supply (which is identical to the one I had in my old case - same make and model, etc). Well, I put the new RAM in, transferred everything to the new case and fired it up. Except nothing happened. I don't mean it didn't post. I mean nothing happened at all. When I press the power button, the computer does the same thing it would if it wasn't plugged into the wall. Absolutely nothing happened. Well, since then I have tried virtually everything I can think of. Tried using the old power supply, made sure the power switch on it was set to I and not 0, made sure it was on 115 V, put everything back in the old case, swapped in different DDR RAM, swapped out the CMOS battery, reset the CMOS, tried an MSI mobo. Pretty much everything except swapping out the CPU. Does anyone have any idea what might be the problem? I'm about to have a nervous breakdown.

 

[Adul]

ECS MB is the prob. sounds like it is dead to me.

 

[jm0ris0n]

Yikes, I feel for you man. I was about to suggest you make sure the SIS board was "shorting" itself out on account of an extra chassis screw, but it appears you have tried to put the board back in the other case.

If you have the anit-static bag the MB came in you might want to try placing the board on that while connected to the power supply with only the memory, CPU, and videocard in it just to see if it can boot.

Goodluck

 

[nikko]

Originally posted by: Adul
ECS MB is the prob. sounds like it is dead to me.

I considered that as well, but I bought an MSI board from Fry's and that wouldn't work either.

[Puts gun to temple and pulls]

*click*

Ok, 5 more tries and I'm dead.

 

[EKAtBzboyz]

try a different wall socket in another part of the house, maybe the circuit overloaded...

or go to electrical box and check to see if anythinglike that happened

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: EKAtBzboyz
try a different wall socket in another part of the house, maybe the circuit overloaded...

or go to electrical box and check to see if anythinglike that happened

sounds reasonable...shooting yourself...is not fixing it tho..

 

[DaFinn]

[Puts gun to temple and pulls]

So what kind of gun is that exactly? Pics? 🙂

Oh yea, did you plug the PSU to the mobo? Otherwise no go! (Stupid question, but I now this has happened).

-DaFinn