this is 2 posts I posted somewhere else with no help. Thanks for reading.Hey there, About 3 months ago i finished my rig. 1.2 gig athlon on a kt7-raid, 256 of crucial memory,geforce3,sblive platinum etc.
Nothing overclocked.
Tonight I was rebooting but instead I shut down, no biggie right. Well then I tried to power on again but nothing happened.
I hear the fans come on and the HD starts to read but my monitor light blinks and no boot screen comes up. Nor are there post beeps.
This is what I tried after I checked all the connections.
1. Put a disk in a: to see if I could boot from there. Nope.
2. There was a cd in the drive but it wouldnt open and the light stayed on so I disconnected power to it thinking for some reason it was trying to boot from the disk.
No help.
3.I took out the memory to see if it would post. Nope.
4. I removed the jumper from the cmos setting and turned it on. Nope. Replaced it in the correct place. Nope.
So what do you think the problem is? I couldn't locate a light on the Mobo so I coulnd't tell if all of it was getting juice. The HDD is a 6.8 old maxtor but I thought that the shelf life on that would be a bit longer than 4 years ( I scavenged it from an old comp and formatted it).
The only other time it didnt post beep was the first time I set it up...ever since then it has worked fine. Except now
Update.
I took out the cmos battery and pulled the jumper yesterday before I went to work. When I got home I put them back in and lo and behold it booted. I reset my cmos and checked the settings in my bios...no problem.
So what I did then was run norton system works which only found one problem which was defrag, no biggie there. I checked all the settings and drivers and nothing seemed out of place.
The first time I thought everything went wrong because I left a disk in the disktray when I shutdown. I know it sounds silly but that was the last thing that happened before these problems. Well this time I tried to reboot without anything in the disktray and the same thing happened.
so what the hell? The tray on my tdk wont open, the light stays on etc.
I've disconnected everything except the video card, ram, and HD. Nothing. I've changed the voltage incase it wasnt getting enough juice. Nope. I switched out video cards. nope. The fans start running and the HD starts moving but nothing. Right now Im just thinking of taking it all apart and rebuilding it to see what happens.
I can't power down when it tries to reboot unless I hold down the power button and thats usually on the third try. This is frustrating.
Athlon 1.2
Abit KT7-Raid
256 Crucial
Maxtor 12 gig hd
Tdk cd burner
Herc G-force 3
Linksys nic card
SBLive platinum.
Klipsch speakers.
Samsung 955 monitor.
Nothing overclocked.
Tonight I was rebooting but instead I shut down, no biggie right. Well then I tried to power on again but nothing happened.
I hear the fans come on and the HD starts to read but my monitor light blinks and no boot screen comes up. Nor are there post beeps.
This is what I tried after I checked all the connections.
1. Put a disk in a: to see if I could boot from there. Nope.
2. There was a cd in the drive but it wouldnt open and the light stayed on so I disconnected power to it thinking for some reason it was trying to boot from the disk.
No help.
3.I took out the memory to see if it would post. Nope.
4. I removed the jumper from the cmos setting and turned it on. Nope. Replaced it in the correct place. Nope.
So what do you think the problem is? I couldn't locate a light on the Mobo so I coulnd't tell if all of it was getting juice. The HDD is a 6.8 old maxtor but I thought that the shelf life on that would be a bit longer than 4 years ( I scavenged it from an old comp and formatted it).
The only other time it didnt post beep was the first time I set it up...ever since then it has worked fine. Except now
Update.
I took out the cmos battery and pulled the jumper yesterday before I went to work. When I got home I put them back in and lo and behold it booted. I reset my cmos and checked the settings in my bios...no problem.
So what I did then was run norton system works which only found one problem which was defrag, no biggie there. I checked all the settings and drivers and nothing seemed out of place.
The first time I thought everything went wrong because I left a disk in the disktray when I shutdown. I know it sounds silly but that was the last thing that happened before these problems. Well this time I tried to reboot without anything in the disktray and the same thing happened.
so what the hell? The tray on my tdk wont open, the light stays on etc.
I've disconnected everything except the video card, ram, and HD. Nothing. I've changed the voltage incase it wasnt getting enough juice. Nope. I switched out video cards. nope. The fans start running and the HD starts moving but nothing. Right now Im just thinking of taking it all apart and rebuilding it to see what happens.
I can't power down when it tries to reboot unless I hold down the power button and thats usually on the third try. This is frustrating.
Athlon 1.2
Abit KT7-Raid
256 Crucial
Maxtor 12 gig hd
Tdk cd burner
Herc G-force 3
Linksys nic card
SBLive platinum.
Klipsch speakers.
Samsung 955 monitor.