No POST, no Video
System has been running at stock speeds for 2 weeks. I recently moved back to SD for school, the computer survived the move. I started it up no problems upon arrival and shut down for the night. Woke up the next morning and the computer would not display video - this was 2 days ago. There is no speaker in this new case, apparently, so I cannot tell if the motherboard POSTs.
I have tried the following:
Removed one, both, sticks of ram
Taken entire setup out of case
Reset CMOS (both with jumper and by popping battery out)
Unplugged HDs and CD-ROM, leaving only vid card, RAM
Reseated everything, replugged everything (even the 4 prong plug, Thrax)
Hardware:
C2D E6320
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
2GB OCZ-8000
Hiper 530W
1950Pro
What occurs upon starting the computer:
Fans spin, HD spins, monitor stays amber
I cannot part swap to test my system against someone else's, unfortunately. What is going on here?
I have tried the following:
Removed one, both, sticks of ram
Taken entire setup out of case
Reset CMOS (both with jumper and by popping battery out)
Unplugged HDs and CD-ROM, leaving only vid card, RAM
Reseated everything, replugged everything (even the 4 prong plug, Thrax)
Hardware:
C2D E6320
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3
2GB OCZ-8000
Hiper 530W
1950Pro
What occurs upon starting the computer:
Fans spin, HD spins, monitor stays amber
I cannot part swap to test my system against someone else's, unfortunately. What is going on here?
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Hope you get your computer fixed.
Thanks, Thrax. I really have no clue what's up with this thing. I've tried everything I can think of and am out of ideas.
BuddyJ suggested swapping the CMOS battery out, I'm trying to track one down but would it be worth trying?
It's not a specialized battery. Any hardware or department store should have them. Very inexpensive, too.
I'm with ya Thrax..... Yank that puppy apart and start with just the MB, CPU, and RAM on a piece of cardboard....
Pull the battery for 30 seconds.
And start over......
Piece by piece you add the crap back in
Cowboy
I'm not sure how to recognize a hardware failure, but is this a symptom of a crapped out motherboard?
Potentially, but unlikely as Gigabyte has designed your board to do what we were doing. Maybe it's a bum... Hard to say w/o components to swap in.
This is why I'm so baffled by it.
I have had situations very similar before where I was just completely baffled - same symptoms as yours, just to find out that the video card had died. I have fried a motherboard before due to high overclocking on a board that didn't have adequate MOSFET cooling, but out of probably 20+ motherboards, I've never had one deteriorate on its own. That includes motherboards from Abit, ECS, Asus, MSI, and Iwill.
Nights, maybe it's above and I just didn't see it - have you tried just one module of RAM, and tried moving it to different slots?
I'll ask a buddy of mine about his videocard. Thanks to both of you for keeping on this.
Tried a friend's videocard in my system, wouldn't show video. Tried mine in his system, showed video. Tried a new battery and that didn't do the trick, either. Motherboard's the cluprit.
So, now that it looks like the PCIe slot's and a RMA's in order, I'm pondering whether or not I even want to keep that one around or if I should just jump up to the budget overclocker P35 Gigabyte just released - GA-P35-DS3R.
Thanks again, guys.