Need Immediate Assitance w/ Motherboard Possibly Dead

[FearoftheNight]

Hi. Today has jsut been a bad day. My computer kept rebooting and after a shutdown I went into bios to check my temps. I chose save and exit w/o making any changes and it froze. So I turned everything off and restarted. Nothing came on the screen afterwards and it has refused to post. The light on the motherboard is on. I have swapped in a video card, processor, ram all of no avail. So is it offically dead? The original processor was overclocked but I stuck it into anotehr comp and it booted up just fine. Any help would be appreciated! Tanks again guys.:|

 

[orion7144]

Try and reset the CMOS before getting a new board and see if it will POST then.

 

[3sixes]

pull the power cord from the syste, pull the cmos battery, minimum of 20 min, may want to leave it out overnight.

Put cmos battery back in, clear cmos, attempt to boot up holding insert key, see if that changes the monitor light from amber to green.

If you get back into bios check your memory timings, I didnt see or remember what you had when looking at you rig, I assume were not talking about the emachine.

 

[FearoftheNight]

thnx...but i tried both already and still no go....>_<.....its on rma repair to newegg right now....too bad they only crossship rma in first 30 days and i got mine 5 months ago. oh well -_-

 

[KF]

SNDS (Sudden Nforce Death Syndorome) on an ASUS? You guys are scaring me. My second try at an Nforce2 mobo is on the way. This time a DFI NFII refurb.

 

[3sixes]

If thats what it is thats exactly why my 2nd attempt at nforce2 motherboads, was gigabyte you almost have to have this feature with nforce2, unless you are going to keep extra bios's laying around, or purchase bios saviour.

Its inconceivable to me that non technial users are being convinced and insturcted on hotswapping their bios? Or having to purchase an addon such as bios saviour.

I had to rma 3 motherboards of the same make and model due to flaky, or corrupted bios, certianly no fun there.

I have no doubt that nforce2 boards are the board of choice, but you gotta have the ability to maniuplate the bios without fear of having to do a rma.

Gigabyte= dual bios, nuff said.