Oh no!! My system just went down and it's not coming back up!!

[Friday]

Using an althlon XP-1700 @ 1875mhz, leadteck 7350 KDA mobo, and 512 sticks of Kingston Valu-Ram...
...my computer with the leadtek board just had the screen go black, and the system attempt to reboot itself for no appearent reason. It never came back up so I tried to cold boot it. Now, it just keeps saying with that internal womem's voice that "the memory module might be damaged or not inserted properly" over and over again. In addition to resetting the board with the jumper, I've tried to swap several sticks of good working memory and swapped the CPU with one that I know is also good. Still, no go. Just keeps letting me know the memory module is dead or something.

What do you all think, dead motherboard?

Been thinking about buying that EPOX Nforce 2 board, ironically

 

[mechBgon]

Originally posted by: Friday
Been thinking about buying that EPOX Nforce 2 board, ironically

See, your board is jealous. Never think those thoughts while the case is open unless you have your Tinfoil Deflector Beanie on. 😉

Ok but seriously, could it be a power-supply failure? What kind of PSU is it, and do you have any other high-quality ones you could try? Sorry to hear of your trouble, something similar happened to me with my EPoX. 🙁

 

[Friday]

The power supply is a RAIDMAX 400W with an external fan that cools it off. The PC does power up, and the PSU still keeps my water cooling system flowing. The BIOS does try to check all of the components like the CD-Rom, DVD player. It just keeps saying that the memory is bad or not inserted (the leadtek 7350kda has a built in speaker with a progrmmed girl's voice lettting you know what might be wrong if something fails to start, it is really nifty on leadtek's part). The leadtek board has the southbridge and northbridge all into one chip, but something is not seeing any memory in the DIMM slots, which makes it fail to show anything on screen. First time I've ever run across that in any of my systems.

Also, when the PC shut itself down last night, another symtom was that the sound card instantly started to send a whining noise to the speakers which sounded similar to when you are listening to a poorly grounded car stereo in which you could hear a high pitched whining noise of RPM's of an engine through your speakers. I took the sould card out and back in and this cleared it up. But still, no memory found, even after replacing the memory with other good working ones.

Feel like I've entered some twilight zone now...