Is This A MB Failure

[nasttcar]

Over the past several weeks I have posted about a whole slew of computer issues and now wondering if all may have been caused by an impending MB failure.

I had a hard drive fail that had never been a problem. I had a PCI drive controller board fail. I then had the onboard NIC fail.

Then, this morning without any warning the display quit. I hooked up another monitor and still no display. I replaced the video board but still no output to the monitor. Swapped cables and still no output either by 9pin or DVI.

The power supply is running, the new NIC lights up, the peripherals attached are powered, but the computer does not seem, or sound like it is going through the boot up stages.

The computer is a Dell 400 SC, 3.2 ghz, 2mb RAM. Computer runs XP Pro.

If the consensus is MB, I would like to move the memory, hard drives, video to another computer. Suggestions are welcome

 

[linkmaster6]

If there is another compatable computer available to you try swapping stuff over to it, plugging in ur hard drive see if the other computer turns on. and continue switching stuff over. but the NIC botching up, and ur PCI drive controller failing it sounds like you should just go get a new motherboard an see if its that. it might be something silly like a jumper set wrong.

 

[nasttcar]

All of this was in a Dell P4 that was about 2 yrs old that had not given a days problem until a few weeks ago.

It does seem that all this happened after adding 1gb additional RAM. The RAM was in the computer for about 2 weeks, then I added a 3rd hard drive. I had to move boards around a bit. Then it seems problems started.

No jumpers or anything were changed.

I am absolutely sure I got the correct memory. I ran Everest to make sure. 2 ea. 512mb or PC3200 DDR RAM.