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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 8:52 pm Post subject: |
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| Thunndarr wrote: |
| Would anything happen though if the motherboard was dead? |
Doesn't the PSU supply power directly to the drives and fans? So they would light up but they wouldn't function properly without signal from the motherboard. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:54 am Post subject: |
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Motherboards have many parts that can operate separately from one another. Fans can spin, but no power to the CPU, RAM slots can be dead while all else works. The mainboard can fire up, but the AGP port is cooked; no video.
No beeps = dead mobo. (battery?) |
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Demonicat
Joined: 18 Nov 2004
Location: Suwon
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| Posted: Tue May 22, 2007 12:47 pm Post subject: |
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| damn that IS bad news...but, I trust demo's word on this as he has never been wrong here before. damn. |
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bellum99
Joined: 23 Jan 2003
Location: don't need to know
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:25 am Post subject: |
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It is probably the video card. I had the same thing happen to me....you didn't happen to flash your video card...did you? It is possible to flash a video card bios with a slightly better bios to allow a person to use the video card to its fullest.
ie: ATI 9550 --- flash ----ATI 9600
A company in korea installed my video card and they did this...the card was not the actual card they said and it showed up correct on boot up...but a month later.....burnout. |
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Demophobe
Joined: 17 May 2004
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| Posted: Wed May 23, 2007 2:51 am Post subject: |
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| Demonicat wrote: |
| damn that IS bad news...but, I trust demo's word on this as he has never been wrong here before. damn. |
I've been wrong for every time I have been right.
However, I have in the past and recently replaced a mainboard and it had all the signs yours is exhibiting.
Turn it on, all fires up but the monitor has no signal. No odd beeps, nothing unusual from inside the box. Take out the graphics card, put it in another system and it's fine. The AGP port was cooked from a static discharge when my son was plugging in the headphones at the back; he touched the jack to the metal around the plug and I guess that was enough.
Replaced the mobo and all is well.
Mainboards are really complex...if something unexplainable is going on, it usually ends with the mainboard. |
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