- Mar 11, 2001
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I was playing a game and the computer froze...
I tried restarting but that didn't do it.
I turned it off and then used the regular power button to turn it back on. NOTHING came up on the screen. The only things that had any evidence of life was all the fans spinning, the NIC card green light and the dvd rom I could open.
All my hardware is quality stuff including a 300watt Antec PS.
I pulled all the plugs off the HD's and CDroms as well as tried removing the Video card and memory... every vital component... still didnt boot at all.
I have an MSI 6330 Socket A mobo... with the D-LED lights... they were all red. It said either the CPU or the CMOS battery. Well, I replaced the CPU and that didnt do anything (unless I broke that one too but I dought it)... and replaced the battery but that still didn't do anything.
Could it possibly be the motherboard even though I can turn the power on (but the restart button doesnt work) the fans work... cpu fan that is plugged into the mobo even. and the DVDrom drive and NIC card lights...
So it seems like power is going through...
Any ideas? I'm suspecting motherboard... not sure what else
. It's a good mobo, I don't understand how it happened... I didn't bump the case or anything... it also has been running fine for 6 months. Perhaps because it doenst seem to respond to resetting (I tried hitting the reset button when the game froze and it didnt do anything) that it could be the motherboard?
Oh, and I sure hope that it didn't kill anything like the ram or hard drives or video card... would it?
Thnx
I tried restarting but that didn't do it.
I turned it off and then used the regular power button to turn it back on. NOTHING came up on the screen. The only things that had any evidence of life was all the fans spinning, the NIC card green light and the dvd rom I could open.
All my hardware is quality stuff including a 300watt Antec PS.
I pulled all the plugs off the HD's and CDroms as well as tried removing the Video card and memory... every vital component... still didnt boot at all.
I have an MSI 6330 Socket A mobo... with the D-LED lights... they were all red. It said either the CPU or the CMOS battery. Well, I replaced the CPU and that didnt do anything (unless I broke that one too but I dought it)... and replaced the battery but that still didn't do anything.
Could it possibly be the motherboard even though I can turn the power on (but the restart button doesnt work) the fans work... cpu fan that is plugged into the mobo even. and the DVDrom drive and NIC card lights...
So it seems like power is going through...
Any ideas? I'm suspecting motherboard... not sure what else
Oh, and I sure hope that it didn't kill anything like the ram or hard drives or video card... would it?
Thnx