Ugh.. i hate working on computers...... esp family.... Updated: Dead Mobo...

[The Stigenator]

So over thanksgiving I was given a computer to swich the video card on. The last time i looked at it (a few weeks before thanksgiving), the computer would turn on and boot (hard drive would read for and stuff and it seemed like it was loading an OS.

Anyway my diag then was bad video card ..nothing on the monitor, the monitor worked fine with my laptop.

Anyway i connected it up the day after thanksgiving, and hit the button and would you know it.. it wouldnt turn on...

since i had to leave for school i had it on me, and her son got the video card on a few days later. I recently decided to look at it again (now that the holidays are almost over) and it still wont turn on.

The Mobo is getting power, and it wont turn on. I put a known good PSU and it doesnt work. I connected the power switch from another comptuer to the motherboard header.. and still it wont power up.

Any ideas?

Can transporting it cause it to die like this? its not giving even a wink about it starting.. no sound nothing..

Its a P2 based system, 450mhz i think with 128mb ram and a Soyo mobo. I am half mind to switch components with my other P2 system just to see if that computer will turn on.
I think i have to give the lady teh bad news, her puter is dead.


edit:

Dead Mobo... dont ask me how it died...

 

[spanky]

reseat the video card.

 

[notfred]

I took that damn giant Dell printer w/o OS X drivers off my desk and replaced it with an Epson Stylus C84. Just FYI.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: notfred
I took that damn giant Dell printer w/o OS X drivers off my desk and replaced it with an Epson Stylus Color C84. Just FYI.

oh okay
I assume the C84 works with PC's
i dont care which one is available.. as long as I can print when i get back.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: spanky
reseat the video card.

tried that.. no go.

 

[HappyPuppy]

Are you saying it does absolutely nothing when you hit the power button?

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: The_good_guy

Originally posted by: spanky
reseat the video card.

tried that.. no go.

is the case speaker hooked up? u getting any beep codes?

 

[Lifer]

plz post in the correct forum.
don't try to hide the true intention of this thread with a misleading title.
you know it's a technical support/general hardware type thread.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: spanky

Originally posted by: The_good_guy

Originally posted by: spanky reseat the video card.

tried that.. no go.

is the case speaker hooked up? u getting any beep codes?

its dead.. i tell ya.. i press a button.. not a whirr not a moan, not a scream.. not even a beep..

it just wont turn on.

I orignally thought it was the power switch, but a power switch from another system doesnt work..
and hotwiring the connectors isnt working too.

 

[JetBlack69]

PSU?

 

[Squisher]

No help with your problem, but try wearing this.

 

[BigJimbo]

Originally posted by: Lifer
plz post in the correct forum.
don't try to hide the true intention of this thread with a misleading title.
you know it's a technical support/general hardware type thread.

go away

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: Squisher
No help with your problem, but try wearing this.

i need to get myself one of those..

 

[spanky]

test the psu

 

[spanky]

Originally posted by: Squisher
No help with your problem, but try wearing this.

that's an awesome shirt. i would love to wear that to work

 

[Legendary]

Try reseating the entire motherboard? Maybe you shorted it out somehow.

 

[Kelvrick]

Try resetting the CMOS. The botherboard is getting power... Does it boot at all? Give you any beeps to work with?

 

[The Stigenator]

im going to swap components with my old p2-400 and see what happens.

 

[The Stigenator]

cmos has been reset, and PSU works.. i have used it before.. its a known good PSU that's on right now..

 

[Kadarin]

Jumper switch to reset the CMOS/BIOS back to factory defaults? (i.e. did it get hit with CIH at some point?)
Reseat/replace RAM?
Check video card in known good PC?

Better brush up on those troubleshooting skills. What made you think video card in the past?

 

[Willoughbyva]

Start with cpu+heatsink and fan, memory and video card. Will it post with just those components?

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: Astaroth33
Jumper switch to reset the CMOS/BIOS back to factory defaults? (i.e. did it get hit with CIH at some point?) Reseat/replace RAM? Check video card in known good PC? Better brush up on those troubleshooting skills. What made you think video card in the past?

my testing diag was right before cause that video card wont power up on a known good PC.

the ram is good (brand new stick i put in) and the cmos has been reset by the jumper.

I am moving the processor to my old P2-400 as we speak

 

[BeauJangles]

assuming it isn't the processor, try taking the entire thing out of the case and running it on a cardboard box, something might be shorting at the mobo.

 

[spanky]

dead mobo i say.

 

[The Stigenator]

Originally posted by: spanky
dead mobo i say.

confirmed...

dead mobo..

i wonder how it died?