No display on media center

[Juice Box]

As stated, I have a media center PC built that had been working fine for months. The other day it shut off randomly, and now I cannot get it to display anything. I tried using the PCI-e video card, as well as the onboard video, none with any luck. There are no POST beeps or anything, so I am assuming the hardware is alright, but I'm really not sure at this point.

The one thing that stuck out as weird to me, is that the IDE cable controlling one of my storage drives, as well as the optical drive, seems to be bad. When I have it connected to the devices, neither of them power up on boot at all, whereas if I only plug them into power, they work just fine. I am planning on getting a new IDE cable to try tomorrow, but there is no reason it shouldn't work without it, seeing as neither of those components are necessary for it to function.

I tried booting it up with one stick of Ram (tried each one once), also with no luck. I re-seated every part in the mobo, just to be safe, with no avail.

Any ideas are appreciated!!


Components:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200
XFX GeForce 8600GT
Biostar NF61S Micro ATX Mobo
2 gig DDR2 800Mhz Corsair XMS2 Ram
2 320gig SATA WE Hard Drives

Hopefully I can get this resolved, thanks in advance~!!!!

 

[Markbnj]

I'm a little unclear as to whether you're getting through boot-up, but just not seeing anything, or not booting at all. If it's not booting then I think your assumption that the hardware is OK might not be well-founded 🙂.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: Markbnj
I'm a little unclear as to whether you're getting through boot-up, but just not seeing anything, or not booting at all. If it's not booting then I think your assumption that the hardware is OK might not be well-founded 🙂.

Well, I have no way to know if it is indeed booted up or not, as I do not get a display. Like I said, there are no POST beeps or error messages that I can hear, but I guess there is really no way to know. Any ideas?

 

[bamacre]

Try booting it up with minimal hardware, cpu, hsf, one memory stick, and video, nothing else.

 

[Juice Box]

Originally posted by: bamacre
Try booting it up with minimal hardware, cpu, hsf, one memory stick, and video, nothing else.

I also tried doing that, took out the video/sound card, and one of the sticks of ram, no dice =/

 

[Markbnj]

Originally posted by: Juice Box

Originally posted by: Markbnj
I'm a little unclear as to whether you're getting through boot-up, but just not seeing anything, or not booting at all. If it's not booting then I think your assumption that the hardware is OK might not be well-founded 🙂.

Well, I have no way to know if it is indeed booted up or not, as I do not get a display. Like I said, there are no POST beeps or error messages that I can hear, but I guess there is really no way to know. Any ideas?

Yeah, an indication that Windows is booting would be a lot of hard disk activity after the POST. If that's not happening, and I would guess it's not, then something has gone wrong at a lower level. I think it's unlikely both your video adapters would fail for any common reason.

 

[Slugbait]

You actually have two problems: no video, no drives.

I'm afraid your mobo may be dead. Try resetting the CMOS, that might work...tho' I doubt it.