As punishment for playing MVP Baseball when I should've been working, I think my motherboard has died. Mid-swing, my computer freezes with a constant sound loop. This has happened before, and I usually hit reset and everything's fine again. This time even reset didn't work. I had to unplug to get it to shut off.
When I plugged it back in and hit the power button, the fans come on and the CD-roms spin, but there's no POST beeps. Nothing comes up on the monitor. The reset and power buttons do nothing. I have to unplug to get it to shut off.
I've got a gigabyte GA-7VTXH mobo and a PNY Geforce3 Ti200 card. I took out all my extra cards, unplugged all the IDE cables, reseated my memory and graphics card. Still no better. I have a PCI graphics card in addition to my AGP one, so I tried taking out the AGP and leaving in the PCI, but that didn't do anything. I don't have any extra AGP to test, but based on the fact that it won't shut down without unplugging, it seems like the motherboard is the most likely problem. Then again, the fact that it crashed during a graphically intense game might suggest a graphics card problem. I also took out the motherboard battery because I read that should reset the BIOS, but that didn't seem to have any effect.
I also thought I smelled something around the time it happened, but I can't be sure. It may have just been the smell of despair.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Any troubleshooting advice that might help? If only someone had told me the Cubs Curse affects computers too, I could've avoided this whole mess.
Mark
When I plugged it back in and hit the power button, the fans come on and the CD-roms spin, but there's no POST beeps. Nothing comes up on the monitor. The reset and power buttons do nothing. I have to unplug to get it to shut off.
I've got a gigabyte GA-7VTXH mobo and a PNY Geforce3 Ti200 card. I took out all my extra cards, unplugged all the IDE cables, reseated my memory and graphics card. Still no better. I have a PCI graphics card in addition to my AGP one, so I tried taking out the AGP and leaving in the PCI, but that didn't do anything. I don't have any extra AGP to test, but based on the fact that it won't shut down without unplugging, it seems like the motherboard is the most likely problem. Then again, the fact that it crashed during a graphically intense game might suggest a graphics card problem. I also took out the motherboard battery because I read that should reset the BIOS, but that didn't seem to have any effect.
I also thought I smelled something around the time it happened, but I can't be sure. It may have just been the smell of despair.
Does anyone have any suggestions for me? Any troubleshooting advice that might help? If only someone had told me the Cubs Curse affects computers too, I could've avoided this whole mess.
Mark
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