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Is my motherboard dead? Please help!

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Jhill

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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
 
probably RMA it through Newegg... the ECS boards can tend to be flaky. The best troubleshooting method for mobo problems is try to power the unit up with just the processor, then add another component like RAM, then Video, then hard drive... etc etc until you can narrow down what might be causing the problem.
 
I tried swapping out the ram and video card and sound card and it still doesnt work. Does the fact that I am not getting any beeps when I start up mean that the board is bad? All i get is fans spinning and I can hear the hard drive but nothing else. I cant even get into the bios.

Thanks for your help.


Also will newegg take it back even though it is over 2 months old?
 
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