My Kt7-Raid won't boot or beep. Plz help out a down brother.

[phUnk]

Hey all, first my system was 90% dependable, now it is completely fuXored.

I have a KT7-Raid (not the 'A' series) with a 900mhz T-bird, that recently developed a problem where sometimes it won't boot. I can tell when it is not going to boot successfully because it never gives that one "I'm on my way phunk" beep right after I power it on. Everything spins up, but it never gives that beep and never inits the display or the keyboard or the MS optical usb mouse. But, if I power it off, let it sit for 10 seconds and power it on again, then it always powers up fine.

Also, sometimes it will boot w/a multi of 9.0 and sometimes it will boot w/a multi of 9.5 (which is what I had it successfully oc-ed to for months and months.)

So, I thought that the not-booting-sometimes problem could be a crappy NIC, so I bust open the box to fix it up and I decide to redo the pencil-trick to make sure all the L1s are unlocked. I also put a tiny piece of scotch tape over the L1 bridges after I penciled them, to keep the graphite in there. (The tape also covered the bridges below L1. Perhaps a bad idea?)

So, now I get no beep and definitely no post. I've pulled the drives and the nic with no change.

Please help!

SPECS:
900mhz tbird
KT7-Raid 100mhz FSB (not running it raided tho)
128M 133 CL2 Crucial ram
netgear or linksys NIC (trying both)
SB Live! X-gamer
creative labs 64MB GF2
1 IBM GXP 30GB
1 quantum fireball 13BG
1 very unhappy phUnk

 

[Wind]

I think is tht shoddy pencil works of urs. The POST of 9.0 & sometimes 9.5 is the evidence. Try remove tht pencil marks using pencil eraser and redo it again.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

If Wind's suggestion doesn't work then you probably mashed the graphite with the tape causing it to contact each other and frying your cpu. Remember, never, ever let the bridges cross. Good luck and I hope this isn't the case.