Well, after much testing, it turns out it seems I fried the motherboard.
I removed the hard drive, graphics card and memory and they all worked in
another PC ok.
I put the same components from the other pc into mine and exact same
outcome, sort of powers up, hard drive spins but doesn't get to bios loading
etc.
Thanks for your help anyway.
Anyone know a good supplier of motherboard or bundle kits as I was thinking
of upgrading anyway? My motherboard is a ASUS TUSL-L which I believe ASUS
made for HP, it is not one of ASUS normal kits. The form factor is listed
here
http://tinyurl.com/6efxy as UATX-> ATX ...do I just look for another
board of the same size?
thanks,
TD
"toedipper" <> wrote in message
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> Sorry for the x post but I am in deep sh*t....
>
> I posted earlier today and asked under a topic of 'Slower
> mory...better?' - if 256mb of pc66 memory would be better than 196 mb of
> combined 64 pc100 and 128mb pc133 memory...
>
> Well to cut a long story short I gave it a go and put in the 2 x 128mb
> pc66 chips and the pc would not boot (not even power up) so I thought this
> was due to my pc requiring a minimum of pc100 memory. At worst I could go
> frying the mem chips as I got them foc...
>
> So I took them out and put in my original memory and the pc powers up but
> nothing happens....it sort of powers up but no activity...
>
> Here are the symptoms in no particular order....
>
> The power supply seems to be working as the fan inside the power supply is
> going.
>
> The hard drive *starts* to spin up, I can hear it, but just does not get
> there, the hard drive activity light comes on *steady* for about 1-2 mins
> and then goes out and system stays on. Usually when system is booting
> the hard drive light flickers as it reads data
>
> The cd and dvd drive lights flash as if checking to see if anything in
> there like they always do
>
> There are 2 cpu fans inside the case and they get the power from the
> motherboard and they work ok, disonnecting their leads from the
> motherboard stops them so there must be power going to the motherboard
>
> There is no power, or seems to be no power, going to keyboard via ps2
> port, pressing caps/num lock produce no flashing led
>
> If I take power out of hard drive then it does not spin up so power must
> be going to it in first place to cause it to spin up
>
> If I take all memory out of system and switch on then it beeps and a green
> light comes on motherboard beside the 2 memory slots so ther must be some
> intelligence somewhere for it to know there is no memory
>
> If I take the main lead from power supply to motherboard out then pc will
> not power up at all so the must be some power going to motherboard for it
> to even power up and sit there
>
> At the back of the PC - a HP Pavilion 710 ,1.3 Celeron, 40gb hd and
> original 128mb ram- on the power supply is a green light and this on
> always on. I am not sure if this is always on or is on due to the fault
>
> Monitor flashes as if in standby mode waiting for video signal, as if I
> have shut pc down at night and not switched monitor off
>
> I have disconnected and reset all cables and pci cards but no joy incase
> it was something loose
>
> What do you think? Have I wrecked the PC. I am typing this from another.
>
> Cheers,
>
> td.
>
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