Computer Startup Problems

[CryHavok]

In the past few days, games that I've been playing have been running abnormally choppy, and yesterday, I was loading up the NOLF demo, and was watching the intro movie, when it started slowing down, and becoming choppy. Then I heard a click, and the screen when black. Ever since, it goes black about half-way through the boot-up. That's only on a cold boot however. On a warm boot it doesn't even register..just says no signal on the monitor. I have checked and cleaned all the fans, and opened up the cover for ventilation. The heat sink is working, and all the fans are working (yes the vid card dan is working too). I have also checked the ram, it doesn't look burnt, and neither does the CPU, also I haven't taken a real good look at either. I've also made sure the RAM was pushed in all the way. I was able to get into the BIOS once, and I loaded the optimal default CMOS, and rebooted, but I still have problems. Anyone know what I can do?

[Rob Cork]

Have you tried with another vid card in? If you were ocing the vid card, or the fsb a lot, it could be that it's just up and died on you :(

[Goldwing]

Sounds like it could be a PS problem. How many watts does yours put out.
You could try to remove all unneeded cards and drives. If it boots up you could have either a bad PS or a bad card.
Minimum= Video card, CPU & HSF, and 1 stick of ram.

[CryHavok]

I tried swapping my old vid card (ATi Rage 128 VR) and I put my ge force in my old computer, after spending 5 minutes toying with teh drivers, the geforce works perfectly....so it's definitly something else. Like you said, could be the power supply. So i'll go give that a shot and see if it boots up.

[Phil]

So you don't get the problem with the geforce only with the ati? or you still get it with the geforce?
If putting the geforce in soved it then something has obviously gone on the ait card, it could be anything, a burnt our capacitor, a dry solder joint. If you are still getting it with the geforce then to be honest it could be anything, the only way to see is to test every component either by stripping down the pc and testing one component at a time in it or putting them in another system

[CryHavok]

Ok, I took out all the ram except for one stick, I unplugged 2 fans, the modem, network card, 3.5, zip, cd-rw, and dvd rom. The only things that are still plugged in are:
HD, HSF, PSFan, 1 stick of ram, vid card (ati, I put my geforce in the comp im posting this with) and the sound card. I went into bios, and checked system temperature, and then it froze. At the time it froze, CPU temp was 35 C, and system temp was 31 C. Could it be the powersupply? I don't think I can take out anything else, except maybe the sound card, but I don't think it would make any difference. Anyways, any ideas?

[bdf24]

I had problems with my Abit BE6-II not posting and acting weird a lot. Well it finally died the other day. You can see three small capacitors that are bulged and have goo coming out. I believe that's the problem. I'm still debating on ripping them off and soldering new ones on. Would be great if I could resurrect it from the dead!