"" wrote:
> I purchased this motherboard back in April 2004- 20 days into
> it my
> motherboard randomly stopped working and Chaintech replaced it
> with
> another. (that time I would press the power button and nothing
> would
> happen at all- somehow the motherboard and my former offbrand
> power
> supply busted) Now, well past the year warranty, I've replaced
> the
> special Chaintech sound card with an older PCI Creative 5.1
> sound card
> (still works in other computers). I then tied down all of my
> wires and
> cleaned up the inside of my computer. With all of my
> peripherals
> installed, I try to start it up, to no avail. Everything is
> powered as
> usual (fans powered as usual, hard drives spinning, cd-roms
> can open),
> but the speaker does not beep when the BIOS begins and nothing
> appears
> on the screen.
>
> I've tried everything to find out what is wrong:
> - replaced LCD monitor with old working CRT monitor...nothing
> - replaced my 256 mb 256 bit AGP 8x 9800XT ATI card with an
> old 64 mb
> card...nothing (btw I do have the extra power thing plugged
> into the
> 256 mb video card)
> - took out all of the extras in case and left only the video
> card and a
> hard drive (and a massive Thermaltake cooling ...nothing
> - I then try other ata cd-roms and sata hard drives, then
> tried it with
> nothing...no change
> - unplugged the 4 plug thing from the motherboard to see if I
> could get
> the computer to beep as it has before...no beep (it has beeped
> before)
> - unplugged the extra power from the ATI card...no beep (it
> has beeped
> before)
> - I then finish completely take off every cable tie off of
> every wire
> that was left...still nothing
> - I then unplugged the front LEDs and buttons and left only
> the speaker
> and the power button...nothing
> - I replaced the power button switch with the reset
> switch...nothing
> - reset CMOS in between each one of these steps- nothing
>
> After trying everything I could think until about 5 this
> morning, I
> then took the little battery out (I think it was a 1 in width
> watch
> battery or something like that- probably the CMOS battery) and
> then put
> it back in. Nothing. I then reset the CMOS yet
> again...nothing.
>
>
> I have a 480 watt Thermaltake power supply which I've had
> since Jan.
> Also last week I stuck another two sticks of Corsair 512 mb
> RAM in, for
> a total of 2 gb. I have a Thermaltake CL-P0025 SilentTower
> thing on my
> 2.8 ghz P4 processor. I'm about to start testing all of my
> other
> components in another older computer to make sure they still
> work
> (except my two SATA hard drives...too bad SATA hadn't been
> invented yet
> when my older computer was made). After my many problems with
> this
> motherboard company, I am about ready to move to another. I
> wouldn't be
> surprised if I was missing something obvious, but I've tried
> everything. Thank you for you time- any suggestions will be
> greatly
> appreciated!!
i feel your pain, been there, done that.
beg, borrow or buy($15) a digital multimeter. then fire up those nice
case fans and check the 12volt line from one of the molex connectors.
(yellow wire) make sure the psu is putting out close to 12 volts.
nice try with the battery. that has known to work sometimes when it’s
a stuck bios(for lack of a better term). since you tried all the usual
suspects, i would try reseating the cpu. if that doesn’t work, it’s
either the cpu or the board. oh, what choice.
that off brand psu hadn’t been near this board?
ud
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