HELP!! My Burner Killed My Computer!!!!!!!!

[KrazyKev]

While I was burning a CD (actually it was in the process of copying to hard drive from cd) the computer screen went black and that was all she wrote. Now I cant even post. The hard drive and cd-rom light (both on primary ide) stay on all the time when powered up. I did get a couple blue screens of death before doing this, I dont rememmber exactly what it said, something with vxd and vcache. I have an athlon t-bird 800 on a Soyo K7VTA-B. My motherboard has voice doctor and it is saying something when it powers up, but you cant understand the damn thing. Some possible things wrong according to manual are: bad ide controller (my guess), bad processor. I tried shorting the CMOS and removeing battery, still wont post. I disconnected everything unnecessary, still didnt work, monitor stays black, and you get the voice doctor warning, no beeps.
Did the motherboard die or the IDE controller? Is that possible? Please help I need my computer working!!! Should I return the motherboard, I built this system a month ago. What coud it be?
Thanks so much in advance.:frown:

 

[RanDum72]

The screen went black, maybe the video card?

 

[KrazyKev]

Does a bad video card cause a system not to post to bios and hard drive/cd-rom lights to stay on? Thanks

 

[obenton]

RAM, cpu, PS - could be almost anything. Check cables and chip seatings - maybe something wriggled loose.

 

[skace]

Did you remove the CDrw from the cdwriter after it blackscreened? I don't know if this would be a problem, but since it did blackscreen while doing a burn I would at least manually remove the CDrw. Also try doing a complete power down, including unplugging the computer from the wall for a good 10-15 minutes.

 

[jsbush]

I would try to find an old pci video card or something and see if it's your video.

 

[dkozloski]

Pull EVERTHING off the motherboard including all ribbon cables. Install only those things that are absolutely required: ISA video card, memory, CPU chip. Discharge the CMOS but be sure to DISCONNECT THE POWER CORD first. Now plug in the power and try a POST. If it works, reinstall the regular components one at a time until you find the miscreant.

 

[SpongeBob]

Sounds like a power supply problem, have it tested.