oh my gosh - Asus P2B EDITED? HELP!!!

[guppie]

My current setup: PIII 600 (512K cache), Asus P2B rev 1.04 bios 1012, 256MB PC133 Generic SDRAM, SBLive, GeForce2 Pro, Netgear ISA NIC, WD 8GB HDD, WD 15GB HDD, CDRW, DVD ROM.

I have no idea what happened, but my system just completely stopped working. I had Win2k running for past 2 months no problems. System was solid, then all of sudden I got frequent lock ups and then system would reboot... now, system won't even post. I've tried just about everything I could think of. I stripped system so all I have is just RAM, 15GB HDD, video card, and floppy - bare essentials... I've systematically removed just about every piece of hardware and tried to boot - nothing. I've tried RAM in each of 3 DIMM slots as well as no RAM - nothing. I took out battery for 48 hours and reset mobo jumper - nothing. I tried 2 other HDDs - nothing. I've tried another video card - nothing. I can't think of much more! Someone please help! When I say "nothing" I mean the screen won't even come on (you know how you see your video card details when you boot up before you see anything else and your computer makes a quick beep) Screen is totally blank and when the damn HDD spins up, I can't hear anymore activity after that (you know how you can either hear the drive access data or see the HDD light flicker when you have HDD activity) nope! Could it be the CPU? What about the mobo itself? How do I determine if its one of those two? I don't have another slot1 mobo and I don't even have another mobo for that matter... This totally sucks! Can I bring this thing somewhere to get it tested? like Radio Shack or Comp USA? I'm waiting for new RAM, so hopefully thats it. But someone please give me some more troubleshooting tips, cuz I'm fresh out and ready to do what my wife has been dieing to do - toss the damn computer out the window!

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The subject didn't need a description like that to get a point across......

 

[Shadow ÒÓ]

sounds like a processor gone south. If it were memory, you should get a series of short beeps.........the vid card should be one long then several short.

Best thing I'd recommend is maybe borrow a processor from a friend or take your processor to his/her machine and give it a shot.

For future reference, we DO enforce language rules here. I can understand your being upset, but S*it is not acceptable. If you really feel it's necessary, I'll overlook S***.

 

[Zuck Gou :)]

Go to a local shop and just ask them if they could put a processor in to see if it works. If they want to charge you, try another, good local shops usually do it free of charge.

 

[Stealth]

Could be your MoBo, we were working on my brother's pc last week and we didn't put the slot in all the way, so it would not detect the cpu. We still got beeps, so if it were your cpu you would probably still get a beep. This is just my opinion I could be wrong, but I would definitely take it to a local retailer to have them check cpu.

 

[Shadow ÒÓ]

I've never heard a beep from a sys that had a bad processor........but then again I've not tried all boards.

 

[Stealth]

Shadow ÒÓ (Jul 05, 2001 11:19 p.m.):
I've never heard a beep from a sys that had a bad processor........but then again I've not tried all boards.

I think he had a sy-6ba+III, the cpu was not all the way in the slot and when booted it made 3 distinct beeps. I thought this sounded strange to, my brother said that this was common with most MoBo's out today.. Guess he might have been wrong..

 

[Flu!d]

If your system really isn't doing 'anything' have you tried another PSU. If your PSU was dying you would get frequent lockups and errors followed by nothing at all - it's very obvious but just try it (well it's what I would do anyway!!)

 

[guppie]

Sorry about the language - my bad. I usually don't get like that, but I've had it with this system. Well, thanks guys, but here is what I;ve done thus far...

Found friend who has a Compaq PII 400 slot 1 mobo. Tried swapping the CPU, but I don't think his mobo could handle it, but still, we got the Compaq flash screen which tells me that maybe it was trying to configure to the new CPU?? Then we tried the RAM - my RAM is fine! Then we tried the video card - dang! Apparently its either my mobo's AGP slot and/or the video card, cuz my video card wouldn't work in his AGP slot and his video card wouldn't work in my mobo either... So, maybe my AGP slot got fried and took my video card with it? I hope not, cuz I recently bought that GeForce from NewEgg and Im not too sure about their warranty policy?? (Anyone care to comment on that feel free) So I think both my mobo and video card are fried... I ordered a new 300W PS and case, so I'll try that next. I'll kepp you posted. Oh yeah, every now and then I'll get the mobo to beep, but its not everytime - strange, huh? Thats with/withou RAM, CPU, Video... Frustrating!!!

Anyone know the Leadtek warranty on their video cards?