Re: Desktop froze, now will not Boot

flippereight wrote:
I built a desktop about 18 months ago. It has worked great until now.

The Story:
I play knight online and I left it on all night in merchant mode to
make money$. In the morning I left it on doing homework/surfing the
net. I probably had Microsoft Word open plus 3 internet browser
windows open and I started to watch a video on YouTube. The video
froze, then my computer froze. It wouldn't restart so I shut it off.

Boot Condition:
I press the power button and everything powers up (including the
graphics card fan,) I think I can hear the hard drives start too. It
just stays powered but no boot up. The monitor detects no signal.

Just as a test I switched to a video card I knew was working (I
upgraded not long ago) and nothing changed.

I thought maybe I wore out the 1GB memory with heavy use the past
year, and considering I left a game on all night. I think that is how
a system works with bad RAM. I don't know how to tell if it is the
MoBo, the power runs through the MoBo I know that. I would assume if
it was the graphics card my old one would work.

Should I just buy some more RAM and see if it works?
Is there a cheaper way of testing RAM without buying more?

Specs:

MSI p4N SLI Mother Board
3.0Ghz P4 CPU
1GB Kingston RAM
Antec 550w TruePower Trio PSU
ATI Radeon x1800xt 256mb Graphics Card
2 Maxtor 120gb SATA Hard drives Stripe Raid

Thanks for your input!
Matthew H

If it's not booting and there are no error beeps at startup, its unlikely to
be the memory, which incidentally you won't have 'worn out' just by using
the PC.
Try booting it without the memory and see if you get error beeps then
(assuming you have the case speaker/buzzer connected). If not, then it's
almost certainly not the memory.
Try resetting the CMOS, if that doesn't work and there's still no error
beeps then I would start suspecting the mobo or CPU as you say it's powering
up but not booting.

SteveH


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