Hello
This is how it goes. I used to have an old computer at the office for internet surfing, MS office, etc ... not very demanding jobs. But suddenly while i was surfing the net, BANG the computer shut-down. When i restarted it the computer wouldn't POST, the CPU fan, the power led and the HDD led was working but no beep codes or video. Here are the systems specs:
PIII450 Slot1
SH6 Abit motherboard
1 64MB PC100 DIMM, 1 128MB PC100 DIMM
Gforce2 MX
CD-ROM (Hitachi)
CD-R (Ricoh)
8 GB Fireball
40GB IBM Deskstar
I know it wasn't much but it was good enough for what i wanted it for (The good one is at home for games, video/image editting etc)
I cleared the CMOS, took out everything except CPU and RAM but nothing, still not even a beep. I took out the RAM as well expecting at least the beeps from the RAM but still nothing.
Then i though that since POST doesn't even reach the RAM check then probably the CPU gave up on me. So i installed another PIII450 slot1 CPU. But again the same thing, no POST no beeps no video (tried it with different grafics cards and power supplies (300W) as well)
So my only logical conclusion was that my motherboard was faulty
And since i had to buy a new motherboard, i thought it was a good time to upgrade. Nothing great, but a disent system:
MSI KT2 COMBO-L (VIA KT266 chipset)
AMD ATHLON XP 1800+
I took out the old motherboard and installed the new one, the new AMD cpu, my old DIMMS (pc100, the motherboard allows the use of pc100/pc133 DIMMS as well as DDR), and my old graphics card, CD-ROMS and HDDs. I've set the jumpers, made the connections, and started the system:stressed:
SAME THING AS BEFORE, system wouldn't POST, no beeps, no video.
I've cleared the CMOS ... no difference
I've set the FSB at both 100Mhz and 133Mhz .. no difference.
Tried another Power-supply ... No difference
Removed and refitted the CPU and fan .... No difference
(I cleaned the cpu and heatsink from the old grease, and applied new one)
I tool out the RAMS, HDDS, Video card, CD-ROMS ... no difference, still no POST no beeps
Oh by the way i know that the pc speaker is working.
The strange thing is that i have exactly the same response from both my old system and the newly upgraded one. And the only common things between them when i am trying to POST with minimum components installed, are the DIMMS and the case.
But even when i took out the DIMMS i should hear the beeps for missing RAM when the system is posting shouldn't I ? But no, still CPU fan, power led, hdd led working, no beeps no video.. no POST
I am sorry for the loooooong message but i wanted to shed as much light as possible because i can't figure it out myself.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
This is how it goes. I used to have an old computer at the office for internet surfing, MS office, etc ... not very demanding jobs. But suddenly while i was surfing the net, BANG the computer shut-down. When i restarted it the computer wouldn't POST, the CPU fan, the power led and the HDD led was working but no beep codes or video. Here are the systems specs:
PIII450 Slot1
SH6 Abit motherboard
1 64MB PC100 DIMM, 1 128MB PC100 DIMM
Gforce2 MX
CD-ROM (Hitachi)
CD-R (Ricoh)
8 GB Fireball
40GB IBM Deskstar
I know it wasn't much but it was good enough for what i wanted it for (The good one is at home for games, video/image editting etc)
I cleared the CMOS, took out everything except CPU and RAM but nothing, still not even a beep. I took out the RAM as well expecting at least the beeps from the RAM but still nothing.
Then i though that since POST doesn't even reach the RAM check then probably the CPU gave up on me. So i installed another PIII450 slot1 CPU. But again the same thing, no POST no beeps no video (tried it with different grafics cards and power supplies (300W) as well)
So my only logical conclusion was that my motherboard was faulty
And since i had to buy a new motherboard, i thought it was a good time to upgrade. Nothing great, but a disent system:
MSI KT2 COMBO-L (VIA KT266 chipset)
AMD ATHLON XP 1800+
I took out the old motherboard and installed the new one, the new AMD cpu, my old DIMMS (pc100, the motherboard allows the use of pc100/pc133 DIMMS as well as DDR), and my old graphics card, CD-ROMS and HDDs. I've set the jumpers, made the connections, and started the system:stressed:
SAME THING AS BEFORE, system wouldn't POST, no beeps, no video.
I've cleared the CMOS ... no difference
I've set the FSB at both 100Mhz and 133Mhz .. no difference.
Tried another Power-supply ... No difference
Removed and refitted the CPU and fan .... No difference
(I cleaned the cpu and heatsink from the old grease, and applied new one)
I tool out the RAMS, HDDS, Video card, CD-ROMS ... no difference, still no POST no beeps
Oh by the way i know that the pc speaker is working.
The strange thing is that i have exactly the same response from both my old system and the newly upgraded one. And the only common things between them when i am trying to POST with minimum components installed, are the DIMMS and the case.
But even when i took out the DIMMS i should hear the beeps for missing RAM when the system is posting shouldn't I ? But no, still CPU fan, power led, hdd led working, no beeps no video.. no POST
I am sorry for the loooooong message but i wanted to shed as much light as possible because i can't figure it out myself.
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated, thank you.
