Hi, I am having problems with my PC, after 2 days with my PC powered off, when I tried to power up, all the lights come

[goosee007]

Hi, I am having problems with my PC, after 2 days with my PC powered off, when I tried to power up, all the lights come on to all the devices ... I have 2 CD-Roms(both are burners), 3 HDDs(2 SATA, 1 IDE), 2 512k of Ram, Intel 2.4C 800 CPU, Video Card, Sound Card, Wireless card, TV tuner, and 420 Watts PS, the case has 8 Fans connected. I built this PC myself, but this seems an on going problem. It only happens when my PC is turned off for a day or two, and when I try to power up, its seems the system is hanging. All the power lights are on, the HDD lights are on but I don't hear them spin, and I don't get the POST, nor any signal to the monitor to show anything at all. But when I disconnected all the devices and left only the CPU, videocard and ram in, the lights come on but no signal showing on the monitor. When I connected at least the 2 SATA HDDs, I get the POST and I can boot to CMOS, and OS. I am not sure why this keeps happening, I tested all the cards, and CD-Roms, and they seem to work fine. I am wondering if its the power supply or the Mobo? I purchased this mobo from ASUS, the P4C800-E Delux, so I don't know if its one of the chips. It would be kinda sad to know if its the mobo because it was a costly purchase. I was thinking of try getting a Power supply tester. Any ideas would be helpful, I've already tested the PC with a different monitor, reseated the CPU, RAM, and reconnected the devices and everything will work fine until I shutdown and don't use this PC for a couple of days. Really wierd.
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[fuzzynavel]

Try taking out all non essential objects such as the 8 case fans......2 of the three hard drives....just leave the boot drive(s)...

you have a lot of stuff in that case...power could be an issue??

 

[goosee007]

Well, what I did, I took everything out of the case, left only the videocard, cpu, and ram to boot up the computer. When I powered up, the cpu fan would turn on, but nothing would come up on the monitor. No POSTs beeps nothing displayed on the screen to incident that they were working. I connected back the SATA drives and IDE and I was able to power up, with the boot lights on but nothing didn't appear on the monitor. The lights just stayed on. So I disconnected the IDE drive, and I still would be able to get anything on screen. So I changed the IDE cable and reconnected it back to the mobo. Then the computer booted up to POST and I was able to get to the BIOS. Which as far as I know, with the drives I should have been able to get there regardless, but this was not the case unless I connected back the HDDs. Note: the boot menu and OSs on the SATA drive[third master], when I tried to get the OS, now I get an error message saying " Reboot and Select Boot Device or select boot media and press enter to restart". I changed the boot set up to the SATA but it would allow me to boot to that HDD, so I changed it to the IDE drive, I was able to see the OS boot menus, but to boot into one of the OS, I get an error message boot files are missing, which I know because its located on the SATA drive.... No matter what I do I can't get it boot to the SATA drive, I can see all the drives and Roms in bios, but I can't get it to boot to the correct Boot drive. I didn't want to have the same power up problem again so I left the computer on at the error message for now.

If you have any ideas of the possibility of motherboard is defective or power problem. I hope this description of the problem will help to analyze the situation.

please help thanks.