Hello,
Soo...things are getting weirder and weirder.
After dusting and reassembling, the machine booted up fine and was working no problem. Left it for a couple of days, and then came in to find the screen blanked, but all the drives and fans spinning.
I reboot it, it POSTs ok, but as it detects drives, it cannot find one of the drives (this drive has the main boot partition) and thus it stops booting with a disk error. This is NOT a good thing since this is the 60 gig main drive!
I shut down, restart a couple of times but the same thing happens. Tried booting off the WinXP installation CD but same effect. It can't see the drive.
So I left it alone being busy with work for a few days. Come back, turn it on, and now it won't even POST. Nothing. Blank screen. Drives spin up, fans are on, but nothing on the screen. The monitor is even reporting 'check connection' as if it is not plugged in.
So I think it may be the power supply. I'm not able to go purchase another one, but I do have an extra one lying around from an older computer. Its plugs won't fit the motherboard, so what I do is divide the load between the two power supplies.
I turn on both PSU at the same time, and I can hear everything spinning up, but nothing. No beeps, the monitor is still displaying a connection problem, nothing. All the fans are on, the drives are spinning, and the CD drive opens & closes.
SO what the heck is going on? Please don't say I've got a fried motherboard
