OMG OMG!!! DID I JUST KILL MY SYSTEM!!!!

[Beano]

Ok, i was getting tired of having my CPU overheat even with my new alpha pal8045 heatsink so i got stupid i geuss and deiceded to reinstall it so i got it finnally after completely dis-assembling the system and then putting it pack together with its freshly aplied heatsink with an ewn coat of AS2. but now it wont boot it just powers up i get no video signal and it sits there with the fans spinning and the lights on. what can i do!!! i already re-seated the RAM and the video card. what else

 

[christoph83]

Did you get any beeps when you booted up? If it beeps at you the motherboard is alive but there are other problems. Try just booting off CPU,memory,and videro card. No beeps= dead motherboard most likely.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

mobo making contact with the case? (i assume you took the motherboard out, you have to to install the 8045).

 

[Beano]

no beeps i cant im not sure if my speaker is even connected right. and im not sure if its making conntact cause everthing is powering up right and all so i dont think its shorting out

 

[Coolone]

in my experience, either you flipped some DIP switches, or something is shorting it out, a cat hair did it for me once :frown:

 

[whitelight]

try to check the power supply too. one time, i booted up, all the fans spun and everything, but there wasn't enough power going through the atx mobo header and i needed a new psu.

 

[Texmaster]

I agree with the guys here Beano. You most likely have your mobo shorting out on your case somewhere.

That will keep it from beeping.

Try that first.

Good luck

 

[Daniel]

Try clearing the cmos while you are at it too, can't hurt.

 

[BrunoPuntzJones]

easiest way to do it is take the mobo out and place it on one of those cushy foam pads that they are often packed with.

never put it on a hard surface, must be soft

connect power supply, vid, ram, cpu. if that doesnt work then it's not the case shorting it.

 

[Beano]

Ok i cant see anything on the proc itself to lead me to comclude that it is the proc so how do i make sure that there is nothing shorting the mobo out?

 

[Beano]

oh heh i didnt see the last post

 

[IoWnZa]

This happened to my friend, he took his CPU out of his old mobo to put it into his new KR7A-RAID, got everything hooked up, and turned it on, fans, lights and everything, but no video. He cracked his core, what a n00b

JM

 

[Beano]

well my core wasnt cracked and i set in on the mat plugged it all in and started it up and still nothing what shoul i do now?

 

[flood]

get your static bags out, remove your mobo from the case and put it on there and try it out.
It'll probably require you to remove the psu from the case as well.

 

[Beano]

i just did that nothing happend differently and i think a just messed my mobo bad so it looks like all my christmas money is going to go towards new parts

 

[Texmaster]

<< well my core wasnt cracked and i set in on the mat plugged it all in and started it up and still nothing what shoul i do now? >>



Boy thats tough. Assuming you only have the vid card in, do you have a spare vid card to try?

After that, grab a mobo from a local outlet and try that next. If it works, send the old one in to get a warrenty refund.

 

[circut16]

Be careful when you buy a new board
because the processor might damage it.

 

[Rectalfier]

It really sound like the Video Card is not seated properly. I have this problem periodically. Try pluggin in the video card, without screwing it in, and without the monitor plugged into it. If you hear a beep, screw the vid card in gently, and attach the monitor cable.

 

[The Sauce]

Well I had a similar problem with my MSI KT266a board. It's unlikely that you shorted anything since all you did was reset the h/s. With mine the problem was merely a weird CPU thing...I took the CPU out and re-seated it a few times and it came back on. This would happen almost every time I either took the CPU out or made a multiplier change in the BIOS. It's possible, I guess, that you might have "static" fried something...were you wearing an ESD strap while changing things?