System won't turn on

[Nick5324]

I built a system recently and it wouldn't turn on. I narrowed the problem down to the motherboard. I got a new MB today, and the system turned on. I formatted the HD and loaded winXP Pro, no problems, everything went fine and looked fine. The first time i went into windows, i noticed the display was screwed up, reminded me of a TV with the horizontal control messed up, the left side of the screen "wrapped" around so it appeared on the right side. I thought this was a little extreme for a driver issue, but i installed the drivers for the card (elsa Geforce256). Restarted, same problem. so i turned the computer off, took out the video card, noticed it felt warm, then put it back in. The system wouldn't turn on. I tried it with no video card, and also with a TNT2 board i have, still nothing. I moved the voltage switch on the PSU to 220 then back to 115 (this worked in a previous problem in a different computer) and tried again, still nothing. I tried the geforce256 in a different computer, and it worked, but the card now felt cool. i noticed that the fan on the chipset isn't working at all. Did the video card overheat in my system and somehow short out the motherboard? :disgust:

 

[Soulkeeper]

i doubt that
what kinda cooling you got on the vid card ??
what kinda cooling for the cpu ??
AGP vid card or PCI ??
i dunno i think yur figure this one out with some trouble shooting

 

[Nick5324]

stock fan on elsa geforce256. AGP board. Coolermaster fan (rated for up to 1.4ghz) on Duron 1Ghz

After leaving the system alone for 30-40 mintues, i came downstaris, tried it and it turned on fine (using my TNT2 board). I changed some settings, messed around for about 10 minutes. Turned off the system and put in a PCI sound card. Guess what.... won't turn on...sigh. Took the sound card back out, still nothing