Is my motherboard dead? Please help!

[Jhill]

Heres my story, I built my rig about 2 months ago. I had a few problems but eventually sorted them out. Then last week I started to get random freezeups about every 10-30 minutes. Then one day I had to pull the plug on the pc because not even holding the power button in would turn it off. Then It wouldn't power up at all, not even a spinning fan. I cleared the cmos with the jumpers and it fixed it for about 15 minutes then another freezeup. When I rebooted after the freeze up I was stuck in 4 bit color and 640 x 480 resolution and that was my only options. I couldnt change it. And it wouldnt connect to the internet. I uninstalled my video card and when I was reinstalling the driver another freeze up. Now when I power up the computer I get spinning fans and I can hear the hard drive turn but nothing else. No beeps and nothing on the monitor. Anyone have any ideas? I tried the normal things already.

I am running ECS k7s5a, pny gf3 ti 200, audigy xgamer, onboard lan, 340 watt enlight psu, WD 80 gig hard drive, tv wonder card, hp cd burner, athlon xp 1700+, 512 meg centron ddr ram.

Luckily Ive never had to RMA anything before, If I do have to RMA this do I send it to newegg or ECS? I bought it on Jan 31st.

Any help will be greatly appreciated

 

[Boonesmi]

back when it still ran (well sortof ran ) when you were having all kinds of stablility problems..... did you by chance run any kind of ram test, like memtest86?

im wondering if one of your ram sticks was going bad... if you have more then 1 stick in there pull one out and try it, then swap them and try it....

 

[jackwhitter]

that ecs can use ddr or sdram correct? your problems sound like ram problems.. i had them not too long ago. i had a 1 of my 2 sdram sticks go bad... my computer barfed anytime i tried to do anything. if it is not ram, then try checking your cpu (i doubt that is it.. but.) usually your other stuff won't affect the computer in such a broad spectrum.. only ram, motherboard, or cpu will do that, usually. if none of that fixes it, you will have to test each card/device one by one. ie, take them all out, then add just the ram, cpu, and vid card. then play with boot. adding in each card until you get it fixed or figure out the problem.