What would cause this?

[Miramonti]

I have an athlon 1.3 on a soyo dragon+ board. I restarted windows and when the computer booted back up the motherboard doesn't beep. All of the fans work and the green light on the mobo works, but it doesn't post. I'm guessing its either the cpu or the mobo but I've never had this happen before. How could I tell which one it might be?

 

[Miramonti]

Any tips?

 

[ojai00]

When this happens, it could be a number of things: RAM, CPU, Power Supply, incorrect grounding, or bad motherboard. I would check the simplest one first. Try switching out the RAM or booting with one chip. If that works, then it's bad RAM. If not, then check to see that the motherboard is screwed in tightly and that it's not touching anything else on the case. If that doesn't work, try taking all your cards out except for the video card and boot it up with the hard drive only (disconnect the CD/DVD-ROM drive(s) from the power supply. If that works, then put in one card at a time until you can get it all up. If it doesn't work, or stops after you add X amount of cards, then it's probably a bad power supply. Switch in a new one and hopefully it will boot. Otherwise, you'll have to check out the CPU or motherboard to make sure that it's not damaged. Hope this helps.

 

[snidy]

The first thing I would do is reset the Bios.

 

[stingbandel]

reset the CMOS and also check your memory plus the video card

I also had problem a couple days ago with soyo mobo. it's just pita

anyway I also remember that someone told me the hdd jumper was actually they jumper for the keyboard lock or something like that

so unplug all the cable to the hdd led and just put the power switch only.



other than that, I don't know.... PM me if it still doesn't work. I'll try to remember what I did to get my friend's soyo to work




Darno

 

[Miramonti]

Thanks for the tips everyone.

After a bios reset didn't work I did what ojai00 suggested, which had me stripping everything down...and voila, its working again. The problem was the cpu somehow. I took it out and then put it back in again, reset the heatsink and it booted up. Go figure, its been running for 3 months and then suddenly the cpu needs reseating?? Whatever but its fixed and I don't have to buy any hardware. YES!!!