Re: Any ideas - PC stopped POSTing/booting
- From: pauld <pauld581@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 23:39:34 -0800 (PST)
top-posting my own follow-up:
I wanted to add that I did reset he CMOS a couple of times as per
Asus' procedure and that this machine is not and has never been
overclocked. I have taken everything off the board including the RAM
and tried putting stuff back one at a time, etc
On Jan 31, 12:19 am, pauld <pauld...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hello
I have been having some trouble with a system I built back in May of
2007 that I wonder if anyone could help me with.
First, the system specs:
- ASUS M2N32-SLI Premium
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ Windsor 2.8GHz Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core
Processor
BFG Tech BFGR76256GTOCE GeForce 7600GT 256MB 128-bit GDDR3 PCI Express
x16 SLI Supported Video Card
- (2x)G.SKILL 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
(a total of 4GB)
- RAIDMAX SMILODON ATX-612WBP Black SECC STEEL ATX Mid Tower Computer
Case 500W Power Supply
- erroneous periphs including 2 x 500GB Seagate SATAII drives running
as a RAID
This system has been working fine from the day I built it until three
weeks or so ago when I turned it on and when I went to use it after
waiting the usual boot time I found it had not booted. The fans and
LEDs were lit, and the speaker on the board is kind of muffled so I
wouldn't have noticed any beeps or lack of beeps. I did a hard reset
and got a "failed disk - need to reset BIIOS to defaults" warning
which I promptly ignored and allowed the system to boot as usual,
which it did.
Since then it has progressed to where cold booting could take upwards
of a dozen cycles of turning on the power switch/holding down for four
seconds to kill it - repeat before I get a beep and a normal POST and
boot. I will repeat that the fans/drives spin up and the case/mobo
LEDs light. There is no beep and no video. Once it finally does boot
the system runs *perfectly*. A hot restart has also been fine.
Anyway, I have been thinking it was the kind of crappy power supply
that came with the case so last night I went and bought a new Antec
500 watt Earthwatts PS to see if that would solve it. When I installed
the new PS and turned on the system I got the same symptoms that I
have been having except now I cannot get it to POST or boot at all.
The fans spin, etc, but no joy. I have stripped the board down to
nothing and taken it out of the case, etc, but this puppy is not doing
anything. But the lights and the fan(s) still spin...
I do not think that it's the PS (I know it's possible, but how likely
to have another different manufacturer/different purchase location
power supply crap out?). So, since I really need to get back to work
ASAP, I have overnighted the identical mobo and CPU from NewEgg and I
am thinking I can return whichever one is NOT the culprit ( not to
scam them - simply to return the item that I do not need)
My guess is that it's the board, but it looks fine.
Everything is exactly as I have described. I am the only one who uses
or touches this PC and it has not been opened or even moved since the
day I built it back in May
Does anyone have any ideas or thoughts on this? Also, if it is the
board, it is still under warranty. Does anyone have experience or tips
on dealing with Asus? I love their products, and I won't begrudge them
one bad experience out of the many good ones I have had with their
products, but fair is fair.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts or help with this perplexing
situation!
Please reply to this group and not my spam-trap hotmail email.
Paul
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