Re: Dead Mobo or PSU?

On Sep 17, 4:13 pm, "JAD" <john d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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On Sep 17, 3:06 pm, "JAD" <john d...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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This is a very long story, but after hours of trying to fix and
searching forums, I've decided to ask you guys so please try and
help ;)

1 year ago I built my own computer, worked fine until about this
august, it started to freeze randomly and crash, I figured it was my
processor overheating since speedfan showed it running really hot. I
cleared out a bunch of dust and decided to buy a new heatsink and PSU
fan, and a new case. While I was at it I bought a new video card
because mine was outdated. The video card and case arrived, and I
began to transplant my mobo to the new case. Everything seemed to be
going well, I did lose one insulator washer, so I didn't screw one
screw into the motherboard just to be safe. The first power up didn't
do anything, but I soon found the problem and fixed it, and it booted
up like normal. After about 2-3 minutes of starting vista, while it
was searching for a new driver to the new 8600 GTS, the computer shut
itself down, after turning the screen white. The only thing left was
my mobo led, lit up green. So I turned the PSU off and then back on,
and this time the computer froze while it was loading the bios and
shut itself off again. I was afraid I might have installed the
heatsink on the CPU incorrectly, but I wanted to make sure, and waited
for everything to cool down and turned the PSU on once again. This
time I made it all the way into vista and turned on speedfan to check
the temperatures, it was reading 20 C and 34 C on my two CPU cores
(Pentium D 2.8ghz) but my video card was running at 70 C. I thought
maybe that was causing the system to shut down (made sense with the
screen freezing) and I looked online for answers. I found some sites
that told me to download the newest vista driver, and I managed to
download and install that driver while the system was still shutting
itself off intermittently. After I got the driver installed it seemed
to be working normally, it was going for about 25 minutes without
shutting off, and many tests were showing everything working
correctly. I tried listening to some music but found there was no
sound coming out of the speakers (I use my onboard sound)or my
headphone jack on my case, so I installed a new driver for the onboard
sound. When I restarted my computer, it blue screened loading vista
(IRQL_NOT_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL error) and then the next time I tried
starting my computer, everything spun like normal, all fans worked, HD
was spinning, GPU fan was spinning, DVD tray opened and closed, and
the MoBo light was green, but nothing showed up on the screen. My
motherboard wasn't even going through post anymore. I tried my old
video card in both slots, I tried different hard drives, and switching
my ram into the other two slots, I cleared my RTC ram cache, and
nothing could get the bios to show up on my monitor. I went to sleep
after working on it for many hours. This morning the condition hadn't
improved, so I removed my battery and then replaced it. The next time
I powered on my PSU nothing seemed to work, no fans spin at all, HD
doesn't spin when connected. The only thing that has life is my
Motherboards green LED.

I'm not sure what could have caused all this, but I think it's between
the motherboard and PSU. Possibly the CPU.

Thanks in advance.

What PSU is in there?
(IRQL_NOT_LESS_THEN_OR_EQUAL error- this points to hardware conflict at the bios
level
reset configuration (ESCD)data in the bios
and/or reset the CMOS

I have a 600W Xfinity ATX model ULT-XF600

I would mess around with the BIOS but I can't even get to it, nothing
spins, my mobo wont even post.

reset the CMOS via the removal of the battery or the jumper

Yeah I already did that, but in my motherboard it's called resetting
the RTC ram cache.

.

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