nothing's happening!

Alrees · 08-April-06, 02:44 PM

I just finished playing a game, came back a little later, and my computer was completely frozen. i hit restart, the fans turn on, i hear my cd-roms start spinning... and that it. My monitor isn't receiving any input, i'm almost completely sure my HDD's aren't spinning, and my mouse isn't getting power at all but the keyboard is. I unplugged it, popped out the cmos battery and switched the cmos jumper, waited awhile, replaced everything, and still nothing. what's going on?

Asus A8N32-SLI
Antec Truepower 2.0 550W
2x Corsair 1gb 3200
2x Leadtek 6600gt-thx
AMD x2 3800+

musclecars&computers · 08-April-06, 03:26 PM

Is it your video card?

joecoin · 08-April-06, 03:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Alrees


	I just finished playing a game, came back a little later, and my computer was completely frozen. i hit restart, the fans turn on, i hear my cd-roms start spinning... and that it. My monitor isn't receiving any input, i'm almost completely sure my HDD's aren't spinning, and my mouse isn't getting power at all but the keyboard is. I unplugged it, popped out the cmos battery and switched the cmos jumper, waited awhile, replaced everything, and still nothing. what's going on? Asus A8N32-SLI Antec Truepower 2.0 550W 2x Corsair 1gb 3200 2x Leadtek 6600gt-thx AMD x2 3800+

Unplug everything (all drives,peripherals, etc) , remove all cards (except video), attempt to start.

Alrees · 08-April-06, 03:35 PM

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Originally Posted by joecoin


	Unplug everything (all drives,peripherals, etc) , remove all cards (except video), attempt to start.

I just went and did that. Everything removed except for ram, video card, cpu, and cpu HSF. Still nada...

musclecars&computers · 08-April-06, 03:39 PM

Do u have another comp to swap parts out w/?

Alrees · 08-April-06, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by musclecars&computers


	Do u have another comp to swap parts out w/?

not one that has pcie or 939

bigmoneyhvywght · 08-April-06, 04:09 PM

Do you have any diagnostic lights on your motherboard or do you hear any beeps? Sounds like there might be a short on your motherboard somewhere. Do you have a different graphics card you could try in your system? That could be causing the short.

I had this happen to me and I just replaced my motherboard. My comp was fine after that but I never figured out what was wrong w/ the old board. Good luck.

Alrees · 08-April-06, 04:25 PM

ah HA!

well, since i couldn't check my video card, cpu, or motherboard, i tried diagnosing my ram. BINGO, one of my DIMMs is bad. i hope i can get it RMA'd.

but now the stupid trial version of windows x64 says it's expired cause my BIOS clock got reset.
stupid F*&%ing microsoft.

Quote:


	They say when you play a Microsoft CD backwards you can hear satanic messages...but that's nothing, if you play it forward it will install Windows!

Ator · 09-April-06, 02:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alrees


	ah HA! well, since i couldn't check my video card, cpu, or motherboard, i tried diagnosing my ram. BINGO, one of my DIMMs is bad. i hope i can get it RMA'd. but now the stupid trial version of windows x64 says it's expired cause my BIOS clock got reset. stupid F*&%ing microsoft.

LMAO, that quote about Windows is classic.

Glad to see you figured out the problem.

joecoin · 09-April-06, 08:40 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alrees


	ah HA! well, since i couldn't check my video card, cpu, or motherboard, i tried diagnosing my ram. BINGO, one of my DIMMs is bad. i hope i can get it RMA'd. but now the stupid trial version of windows x64 says it's expired cause my BIOS clock got reset. stupid F*&%ing microsoft.

Now that wasn't so hard , was it? Glad you got it diagnosed.

Aint microsoft wonderful?

08-April-06, 02:44 PM		#1 (permalink)
Alrees Apex Techie II	nothing's happening! I just finished playing a game, came back a little later, and my computer was completely frozen. i hit restart, the fans turn on, i hear my cd-roms start spinning... and that it. My monitor isn't receiving any input, i'm almost completely sure my HDD's aren't spinning, and my mouse isn't getting power at all but the keyboard is. I unplugged it, popped out the cmos battery and switched the cmos jumper, waited awhile, replaced everything, and still nothing. what's going on? Asus A8N32-SLI Antec Truepower 2.0 550W 2x Corsair 1gb 3200 2x Leadtek 6600gt-thx AMD x2 3800+ Last edited by Alrees; 08-April-06 at 02:50 PM..

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08-April-06, 03:26 PM		#2 (permalink)
musclecars&computers Apex Tech Demi-God	Is it your video card?

08-April-06, 03:39 PM		#5 (permalink)
musclecars&computers Apex Tech Demi-God	Do u have another comp to swap parts out w/?

08-April-06, 04:09 PM		#7 (permalink)
bigmoneyhvywght Apex Tech Fanatic	Do you have any diagnostic lights on your motherboard or do you hear any beeps? Sounds like there might be a short on your motherboard somewhere. Do you have a different graphics card you could try in your system? That could be causing the short. I had this happen to me and I just replaced my motherboard. My comp was fine after that but I never figured out what was wrong w/ the old board. Good luck.