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Rococo · 01-14-2006, 07:14 PM

I think the worst just happened. I came home to find my computer was running, but the monitor light was just flashing. Switching the computer on/off only resulted in the fans starting up but nothing after that. Nothing shows up on the screen, no boot screen, nothing. I unplugged all the peripherals so it is only the HD and that's it. Made sure the HD was set to master. same thing. I have to 512 ram sticks in a dual-ddr setup, I tried one at a time and I switched them to see if it was the ram that's faulty, nothing. I'm assuming it's not the monitor since I can't hear anything happen except for the fans start up in the box, all the little led lights on the boards and drive started up as well.

At this point I'm only ruling the motherboard could be causing this. I've been using this for almost 4 years now.

Any experts on this, the only things left I'm thinking is the cpu. If it's the cpu that's fried would I at least see a boot up screen?

Any other ideas?? I've never dealt with this type of problem before so I'm stumped. If its the motherboard, what do you recommend to switch with this current model. I'm using the Asus P4P800DX. I did a quick search online and it looks like this is still in production, but there are some newer ones out there too now.

Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

01-14-2006, 07:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
Rococo Insane	I think my motherboard just fried!! Serious help needed.... I think the worst just happened. I came home to find my computer was running, but the monitor light was just flashing. Switching the computer on/off only resulted in the fans starting up but nothing after that. Nothing shows up on the screen, no boot screen, nothing. I unplugged all the peripherals so it is only the HD and that's it. Made sure the HD was set to master. same thing. I have to 512 ram sticks in a dual-ddr setup, I tried one at a time and I switched them to see if it was the ram that's faulty, nothing. I'm assuming it's not the monitor since I can't hear anything happen except for the fans start up in the box, all the little led lights on the boards and drive started up as well. At this point I'm only ruling the motherboard could be causing this. I've been using this for almost 4 years now. Any experts on this, the only things left I'm thinking is the cpu. If it's the cpu that's fried would I at least see a boot up screen? Any other ideas?? I've never dealt with this type of problem before so I'm stumped. If its the motherboard, what do you recommend to switch with this current model. I'm using the Asus P4P800DX. I did a quick search online and it looks like this is still in production, but there are some newer ones out there too now. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.