Hi,
I don't know if it's related to this section or not but here's the problem: I wasn't home and someone played GTA Vice city and it froze and when trying to restart, nothing happened. I turned on the machine and there's no video input. Monitor is black and its power button blinks as if the PC is turned off. After too many trial and error and restarts I restarted and found the bios screen with the motherboard logo and then it stuck forever and when I tried to restart it to get rid of that frozen screen, still no video output.
Tried to reset CMOS and after 1000 restarts it worked to tell me to choose which bios and when I chose one, it froze again and had to restart .
My problem's symptoms:
Although my screen still black, no video output, but every single fan in my case is working fine, HDDs spin, LAN lamp is on, mouse has its light, USB ports has power to charge a phone and even checked the processor without its fan to determine if it has power and I touched and it was getting hotter as soon as I pressed the power button
My Troubleshooting:
Motherboard : Gigabyte G31-S2L
Processor: Core2Duo E7200
RAM: 2x2GB Kingston DDR2
Video: XFX 9500 GT 512MB
Windows 7 x64
Couple of HDDs
Power Supply: Antec 450 watt
What is the problem ? Faulty PSU? Bad RAMs? Motherboard has some damage?
What do you think?
I don't know if it's related to this section or not but here's the problem: I wasn't home and someone played GTA Vice city and it froze and when trying to restart, nothing happened. I turned on the machine and there's no video input. Monitor is black and its power button blinks as if the PC is turned off. After too many trial and error and restarts I restarted and found the bios screen with the motherboard logo and then it stuck forever and when I tried to restart it to get rid of that frozen screen, still no video output.
Tried to reset CMOS and after 1000 restarts it worked to tell me to choose which bios and when I chose one, it froze again and had to restart .
My problem's symptoms:
Although my screen still black, no video output, but every single fan in my case is working fine, HDDs spin, LAN lamp is on, mouse has its light, USB ports has power to charge a phone and even checked the processor without its fan to determine if it has power and I touched and it was getting hotter as soon as I pressed the power button
My Troubleshooting:
- Removed the processor's fan, re-apply the paste. (Tried without fan to see if the processor is dead but it heated up pretty fast without the fan)
- CMOS battery removal for 5 minutes and CMOS resetting using a screwdriver for 5 seconds.
- Cleaning the rams and swapped their places couple of hundred of times.
- Removing the external video card and tried the on-board card.
- Removing every single HDD that I got
- Removing the two ram sticks
- Cleaning the whole rig
- Changing the power cable's place
- Take the 24-pin cable and the 4-pin cable away and then put it back again.
- Get rid of every single cable attached, removed power cable and pressed the powe button for 30 seconds to get rid of any excess charges that might be there
- Maybe we should exclude the power supply as a problem since I've just tried the paperclip test:
and http://support.antec.com/support/so...19-is-my-power-supply-dead-the-paperclip-test
Motherboard : Gigabyte G31-S2L
Processor: Core2Duo E7200
RAM: 2x2GB Kingston DDR2
Video: XFX 9500 GT 512MB
Windows 7 x64
Couple of HDDs
Power Supply: Antec 450 watt
What is the problem ? Faulty PSU? Bad RAMs? Motherboard has some damage?
What do you think?
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