Out of the blue one day, for no reason whatsoever (I don't overclock or anything), my computer just froze and then decided to stop working :frown:. Considering the fact that the CPU was under no stress at all prior to the discontinued service and everything else seemed alright, I assumed that the problem was in fact the motherboard. Lo and behold, I received a replacement motherboard from the fine folks at Asus, and it still doesn't work. Now, I have the same problems as senor Brule (Post: "Problems with soyo k7vme"); lack of POST, no beep messages, no video on monitor, no sounds, nothing. Pretty much what happens is I turn on the computer and the power LED goes on and the IDE activity LED stays solid for a good 30 seconds (pretty unusual for me). The fans all turn on, and absolutely nothing happens. I can't get to the BIOS and clearing the RTC cache doesn't help at all. I've double checked every jumper and made sure all plugs and cables were in place, and I'm gettin' grey hairs from it all already (even at the age of 19).
I called up Asus again and told them what happened (that it still didn't work) and they told me that it can't possibly be the motherboard then because they test everything before it goes out. So I tried the RAM. Theoretically, if I had bad RAM and I removed it from the motherboard and turned it on, it should give me error beeps. I would supposedly be forcing beeps which would be one way that I could see if my motherboard was working at all. No-siree... No beeps. So then I tried to see if it in fact was my CPU like the fellow at Asus said. Going by what tech support said, I removed the CPU and turned it on. Theoretically, I should again be receiving error beeps since I am inducing error, but again, I do not. Then I decided to swap CPUs. I have my family computer, a Dell at 2.4 GHz. So I swapped them, and whattaya know... It works!! I have reached the conclusion that it WAS my CPU all along. Not so... I put the 2.8c CPU in the Dell, and it somehow works also! So... In high hopes that maybe putting it in the Dell had reset some kind of switch in the CPU (wishful thinking), I put it back in my Asus mobo, and it didn't work... So now I'm here...
I'm sorry for such a long post, but I've been so stressed out over this, and I've searched high and low for a solution to no avail... If I could get any help or comments at all, I would really appreciate it...
O yea... Specs are in my sig... Thanks again for any help I can get from you guys/gals...
I called up Asus again and told them what happened (that it still didn't work) and they told me that it can't possibly be the motherboard then because they test everything before it goes out. So I tried the RAM. Theoretically, if I had bad RAM and I removed it from the motherboard and turned it on, it should give me error beeps. I would supposedly be forcing beeps which would be one way that I could see if my motherboard was working at all. No-siree... No beeps. So then I tried to see if it in fact was my CPU like the fellow at Asus said. Going by what tech support said, I removed the CPU and turned it on. Theoretically, I should again be receiving error beeps since I am inducing error, but again, I do not. Then I decided to swap CPUs. I have my family computer, a Dell at 2.4 GHz. So I swapped them, and whattaya know... It works!! I have reached the conclusion that it WAS my CPU all along. Not so... I put the 2.8c CPU in the Dell, and it somehow works also! So... In high hopes that maybe putting it in the Dell had reset some kind of switch in the CPU (wishful thinking), I put it back in my Asus mobo, and it didn't work... So now I'm here...
I'm sorry for such a long post, but I've been so stressed out over this, and I've searched high and low for a solution to no avail... If I could get any help or comments at all, I would really appreciate it...
O yea... Specs are in my sig... Thanks again for any help I can get from you guys/gals...