PC Gremlins

[zacha82]

Ok here goes... One day I power on my PC and I get fans, lights, and drives. Not even a beep! So I try everything in my power to troubleshoot the beast. Swapped out the PSU, video card, pulled the RAM out to see if I could at least get it to yell at me for taking it out. The beast was dead. So I replace the Motherboard... IT'S ALIVE, ALIVE! For about a day (>.<). So I do the same routine, poke around the beast for a bit to find out my AGP slot died. Trying to save a buck, I buy a PCI video card. We are back in business, for a week... (>.<) So now here I am using an old PIII 1.4GHz, pride shot all to hell, asking for help.

Some possibly helpful info:

Original PC
GA-8IPE1000 Pro G
1GB (2x 512) PC3200
256MB NVIDIA BFG FX5200 (AGP)
PSU 350W Eagle
Windows XP Pro
2x 80 GB SATA 1.5 WD Hard Disks
Sony 8X DVD Burner

Current dead PC
ASUS P4P800-E Deluxe
VisionTek ATI Radeon X1300 (PCI)
550W Antec PSU
The rest is unchanged.

My PC needs help before I do something harmful to it.

 

[meltdown75]

Hmm. There is a pretty wide range of what could be wrong here.

Since the motherboard was replaced, I think we can safely say that the mobo is fine for now.

One of your other components is consistently causing a problem. My money is on the video card or the CPU. Even if your RAM was bad I am assuming it would still POST and register a beep and manifest its problems in other ways. The video card and / or CPU might prevent the system from POSTing if they were defective.

I'd try an alternate CPU or video card with the replaced board and see how you make out from there.

 

[zacha82]

Update: I am sending in my motherboard back to ASUS for replacement, since I know the AGP slot is dead.

I swapped out the X1300 for an older known working PCI video adapter and still no POST. When I put the X1300 back in the system the monitor was displaying the no signal window instead of going into standby as before.