Help!! Has something in my PC died?

Hi
MY PC= AMD 2.6, Gigabye K7 Triton GA-7VT600, 500Mb DDR400, Geforce
440, XP Pro corporate.(Not networked or online)
Tonight I turned on my PC, left the room for 5 mins. When I returned
the monitor was showing a black screen with the words "recovering
bios" scrolling down the screen. I let this continue for a few minutes
then restarted the PC. Now the machine will not boot at all, including
from the floppy drive.
When the I turn the PC on there is a little hard disk activity then
it stops. The CD drives light up as usual, the floppy does not, there
is no POST and the monitor remains blank.
This motherboard is less than 6 months old so the Bios battery running
out is unlikely. I tried two other graphics cards and there was no
difference.
Till today this PC was running smoothly with no obvious problems.
I need help. Any idea's or suggestions much appreciated.
Thanks.

you need to disconnect all the hard drives and pull the video card see if
you get beep codes do the same for memory. If those work and the beep codes
are correct then you will know where the problem lies also check for shorts
on the mobo to the case.

Did you change anything recently?

Wayne


"Anthropy" <> wrote in message
news:...
> Hi
> MY PC= AMD 2.6, Gigabye K7 Triton GA-7VT600, 500Mb DDR400, Geforce
> 440, XP Pro corporate.(Not networked or online)
> Tonight I turned on my PC, left the room for 5 mins. When I returned
> the monitor was showing a black screen with the words "recovering
> bios" scrolling down the screen. I let this continue for a few minutes
> then restarted the PC. Now the machine will not boot at all, including
> from the floppy drive.
> When the I turn the PC on there is a little hard disk activity then
> it stops. The CD drives light up as usual, the floppy does not, there
> is no POST and the monitor remains blank.
> This motherboard is less than 6 months old so the Bios battery running
> out is unlikely. I tried two other graphics cards and there was no
> difference.
> Till today this PC was running smoothly with no obvious problems.
> I need help. Any idea's or suggestions much appreciated.
> Thanks.

Check your power supply. See if the fan(s) run.
McG.

Anthropy wrote:
> Hi
> MY PC= AMD 2.6, Gigabye K7 Triton GA-7VT600, 500Mb DDR400, Geforce
> 440, XP Pro corporate.(Not networked or online)
> Tonight I turned on my PC, left the room for 5 mins. When I returned
> the monitor was showing a black screen with the words "recovering
> bios" scrolling down the screen. I let this continue for a few minutes
> then restarted the PC. Now the machine will not boot at all, including
> from the floppy drive.
> When the I turn the PC on there is a little hard disk activity then
> it stops. The CD drives light up as usual, the floppy does not, there
> is no POST and the monitor remains blank.
> This motherboard is less than 6 months old so the Bios battery running
> out is unlikely. I tried two other graphics cards and there was no
> difference.
> Till today this PC was running smoothly with no obvious problems.
> I need help. Any idea's or suggestions much appreciated.
> Thanks.

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:11:33 GMT, "Wayne" <>
wrote:

>you need to disconnect all the hard drives and pull the video card see if
>you get beep codes do the same for memory. If those work and the beep codes
>are correct then you will know where the problem lies also check for shorts
>on the mobo to the case.
>
>Did you change anything recently?
>
>Wayne
>
Hi
Thanks for the help.
No, I've not changed anything recently. I pulled the video and the
memory and there were no beeps when I turned on the machine. There is
no output to the monitor nor is the keyboard or floppy working. All
the fans are working and the cd drives power up.
Forgive my ignorance but if the floppy drive is not working how would
I install a fix?, i.e flash BIOS.
Thanks.
>"Anthropy" <> wrote in message
>news:.. .
>> Hi
>> MY PC= AMD 2.6, Gigabye K7 Triton GA-7VT600, 500Mb DDR400, Geforce
>> 440, XP Pro corporate.(Not networked or online)
>> Tonight I turned on my PC, left the room for 5 mins. When I returned
>> the monitor was showing a black screen with the words "recovering
>> bios" scrolling down the screen. I let this continue for a few minutes
>> then restarted the PC. Now the machine will not boot at all, including
>> from the floppy drive.
>> When the I turn the PC on there is a little hard disk activity then
>> it stops. The CD drives light up as usual, the floppy does not, there
>> is no POST and the monitor remains blank.
>> This motherboard is less than 6 months old so the Bios battery running
>> out is unlikely. I tried two other graphics cards and there was no
>> difference.
>> Till today this PC was running smoothly with no obvious problems.
>> I need help. Any idea's or suggestions much appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>

"Anthropy" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:11:33 GMT, "Wayne" <>
> wrote:
>
> >you need to disconnect all the hard drives and pull the video card see if
> >you get beep codes do the same for memory. If those work and the beep
codes
> >are correct then you will know where the problem lies also check for
shorts
> >on the mobo to the case.
> >
> >Did you change anything recently?
> >
> >Wayne
> >
> Hi
> Thanks for the help.
> No, I've not changed anything recently. I pulled the video and the
> memory and there were no beeps when I turned on the machine. There is
> no output to the monitor nor is the keyboard or floppy working. All
> the fans are working and the cd drives power up.
> Forgive my ignorance but if the floppy drive is not working how would
> I install a fix?, i.e flash BIOS.
> Thanks.

It sounds like either the mobo has died on you or maybe the cpu ... they are
the only things I can think of now that would give the symptoms you describe
as you've already proved the POST isn't getting to the stage of testing for
the presence of RAM or a video card .... the fans and drives spinning up is
due to the 12v line from the psu powering the motors in them.

From the initial problem I'd say it was the mobo myself and if you don't
have a way to test your cpu in another machine, or another cpu in your
machine, then I'd be getting the mobo replaced .... assuming there isn't
anything shorting out the board, but as you haven't touched the inside of it
lately makes that unlikely.

Mal

On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:46:39 GMT, "McGrandpa"
<> wrote:

>Check your power supply. See if the fan(s) run.
>McG.
>
>Anthropy wrote:
>> Hi
>> MY PC= AMD 2.6, Gigabye K7 Triton GA-7VT600, 500Mb DDR400, Geforce
>> 440, XP Pro corporate.(Not networked or online)
>> Tonight I turned on my PC, left the room for 5 mins. When I returned
>> the monitor was showing a black screen with the words "recovering
>> bios" scrolling down the screen. I let this continue for a few minutes
>> then restarted the PC. Now the machine will not boot at all, including
>> from the floppy drive.
>> When the I turn the PC on there is a little hard disk activity then
>> it stops. The CD drives light up as usual, the floppy does not, there
>> is no POST and the monitor remains blank.
>> This motherboard is less than 6 months old so the Bios battery running
>> out is unlikely. I tried two other graphics cards and there was no
>> difference.
>> Till today this PC was running smoothly with no obvious problems.
>> I need help. Any idea's or suggestions much appreciated.
>> Thanks.
>
Thanks for the help everyone, much appreciated.
On returning the board to the suppliers they ran some tests and
determined that the back of the mother board had been in contact with
the case chassis hence the board fried. Luckily the CPU did not. I'm
out of pocket but wiser.

"Anthropy" <> wrote in message
news:...
> On Thu, 01 Jul 2004 02:46:39 GMT, "McGrandpa"
> <> wrote:
>
> >Check your power supply. See if the fan(s) run.
> >McG.
> >
> >Anthropy wrote:
> >> Hi
> >> MY PC= AMD 2.6, Gigabye K7 Triton GA-7VT600, 500Mb DDR400, Geforce
> >> 440, XP Pro corporate.(Not networked or online)
> >> Tonight I turned on my PC, left the room for 5 mins. When I returned
> >> the monitor was showing a black screen with the words "recovering
> >> bios" scrolling down the screen. I let this continue for a few minutes
> >> then restarted the PC. Now the machine will not boot at all, including
> >> from the floppy drive.
> >> When the I turn the PC on there is a little hard disk activity then
> >> it stops. The CD drives light up as usual, the floppy does not, there
> >> is no POST and the monitor remains blank.
> >> This motherboard is less than 6 months old so the Bios battery running
> >> out is unlikely. I tried two other graphics cards and there was no
> >> difference.
> >> Till today this PC was running smoothly with no obvious problems.
> >> I need help. Any idea's or suggestions much appreciated.
> >> Thanks.
> >
> Thanks for the help everyone, much appreciated.
> On returning the board to the suppliers they ran some tests and
> determined that the back of the mother board had been in contact with
> the case chassis hence the board fried. Luckily the CPU did not. I'm
> out of pocket but wiser.

condolences...been there, done that. But some good help here...that was
encouraging.