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Prove Your Skills - Bring my box back to life

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RedHouse18

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When I hit the power button the best I get is one second of fan movement on my cpu cooler before it shuts itself down. Here's how it all started... a few months ago:

Computer sounded like it was booting but I got no monitor response.
Tested monitor with laptop, it works. Weeks pass...

Replaced video card, no help.
Reset bios and got it to boot but system wasn't stable. Weeks pass...

Replaced motherboard and memory, no luck.
Now its not booting at all. Weeks pass...

Replace power supply, no help.

cpu? power switch? stupidity? something else?
You thoughts are greatly appreciated!

Mike
 
could you give us a rundown on the components, that would perhaps help.

mobo
cpu
vid card ram
psu
drives
etc:
 
if you replaced the motherboard, memory, video card and power supply, and don't have anything else plugged in, i'd bet on a bad cpu or a short between the motherboard and case (make sure you don't have any extra standoffs touching the bottom of the board).

specs would help
 
Specs are Leadtek K7NCR18D-PRO (NForce II) with an Athlon XP 2100
Old video card is a Creative GeForce II, New one is an ATI All-in-wonder 9000 Pro
Ram is cheap generic (but I tried new Dimms)
Power Supply a Fortron FSP300-60ATV
Only connecting my Western Digital 120gig hd

Thanks
 
If everything boots but you get no monitor display, system beeps, and you KNOW that the vid card is working, your CPU is very likely dead.

Like everyone else said, make sure you are using mobo standoffs. I've heard of a few n00bs who didn't know to use standoffs and they instantly fried their boards. But I don't think this is the issue because you seemed to allude to the fact that everything was working before, and that the problems started randomly one day, right?
 
Holly Crap! I had no idea that the standoffs were such a concern.
After adjusting them I got it to turn on and stay on... now I get
long repeated beeps spaced a few seconds apart...
Thanks, now what?

 
ok, now I've got it trying to boot windows but it restarts before I see the desktop.
I'm running with very basic bios settings and attempting safe mode.
 
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