Computer fails to start up

franman

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So here's what happened I got a blue screen of death shortly after logging into Windows 7 then the system rebooted. Then after it booted I got another blue screen of death. Both blue screen of deaths from what I've recall are due to memory dumps. After the second reboot I've got a blank screen.

So here's what I've did by far:
1) Push and hold the power button to shut down the computer, switch the PSU to off unplug power cord and all usbs.

2) Plug the power cord back in, switch the PSU to on and powered on the computer.

Still blank screen.

Here are the specs of my 7+ year old computer:

-CPU Intel Quad Core 2 Q6600
-Motherboard ASUS P5N-D
-Memory 8GB XM2 DDR2 Corsair Memory
-Storage WD Velocopter HDD, a 500GB WD harddrive (inside the case but not connected), two 1TB HDDs (WD & Seagate) in RAID 1 and a Samsung 840EVO SSD connected to a SIIG/Marvell I/O controller
-Graphics Card NVidia GTX 560 by EVGA
-Chassis Antec P181
-External Battery backup and surge protection APC BR1500G
 
Solution
Sounds like Windows needs to do a repair but first you need to find the cause of the BSOD's. C:\Windows\Minidump\ is the location of your Crash dmp's if you don't mind reviewing them and see if they are remotely the same then posting one or two here.

Here is also a program that will read the file and help isolate the issue.
http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/blue_screen_view.html

No I couldn't. Whenever I reboot it shows blank.

Usually upon start up it shows the name of the motherboard manufacturer but instead I get blank and I couldn't get into Windows.
 
When you hit the Power button do you hear any Clicking from the Hard Drive?
Do your fans come on, Power Supply, CPU, Chassis fans?
Do any LED status lights come on?

If NO to any of these Check you Power Supply with a Multimeter, Pull a Molex Connector and Check voltage across the Yellow/Black 12V+ Wire and Red/Black Wire 5V+. results should be within 5% of posted Values.
molexpinoutdiagram.jpg


If Voltages are good then try to use you integrated Video, first unplug the Power Connector from your GPU and remove it from the Chassis then reboot.

No Change then remove everything but the CPU one component at a time and reboot each time but the, if nothing then you motherboard is dead.

(editing due to bad Connection)