Is my motherboard toast?

[hopeless879]

OK, so there was a pretty bad thunderstorm here last night, the power went out a couple of times. Anyways my moms computer went down. It was on a generic power strip, so nothing really to protect it. Today my brother tried to turn it on, and he gets no video signal. Fans startup, harddrive spins. No POST, no video at all. The mobo didnt beep at all.

I tried the video card in another machine and it works fine (its an AGP card). I tried a working PCI video card in the machine, still no post or video signal. Cleared the CMOS, disconnected the power connector on the motherboard for about a minute. I tried the monitor on another computer and the monitor works fine also.

My guess is its either the motherboard or the processor.

System specs:
Pentium 2 400mhz, 192 BM pc133, 12 GB 5400 hdd, not sure what mobo it is (old and oem.)

Any help would be appreciated.

 

[hopeless879]

anyone?

 

[DeschutesCore]

50% of the time, this will work.

Pull the modem first, that's the fastest way for power to hit the system, and a dead PCI card can prevent POST. After that, yank everything but RAM, CPU, and Video. Do a CMOS reset, and then try again.

DC

 

[hopeless879]

Good call DeschutesCore, it was the network card. My router also got taken down by the storm, must have travelled throught the network some how.