pc dead.....help

[slick88]

when i hit the button all the fans spin up but no video signal, and no beeps either, i checked the video card in another pc and it works fine, I also tried another power supply and had the same result, i figure its the board or cpu, any ideas??

 

[MichaelD]

You've done a good amount of troubleshooting so far. It's not the videocard nor the PS. Most probably the board is dead. But try a few other things first before calling it dead.

Remove everything except the CPU, videocard and one stick of memory and try again. Also, remove the CMOS battery from the board (with the PS unplugged), wait 15 mins, reinsert battery and try again.

 

[Roguestar]

As MichaelD says, start it from the ground up (OUTSIDE the PC case, on a table, to eliminate the possibility of case shorts), plug the PSU, one stick of RAM and CPU into the motherboard. You've confirmed the card is good so add that and see if you get any POST results on a monitor. Start adding stuff back piece by piece until it fails, to identify the part that caused it. If it doesn't work in the most basic configuration, see if you can get a CPU from a friend to try that in your motherboard, or perhaps just go straight to RMAing the board.

 

[jae]

Start it with just cpu.. it should beep tellin you theres no ram.

 

[slick88]

I narrowed it down to the board or the cpu, im running a amd 6400 x2 not overclocked, i guess ill orderer a new borad and hope thats it

 

[Nizbot]

Most likely your board. Happened to me as well on a new build. Pretty frustrating.