PC will not post, no beeps, no display, already reset CMOS

[AshleyKooky]

Alright here we go.

First of all, I acquired this PC from an old coworker of mine who told me I could have it but it didn't post and all it did was beep.

I popped open the case, the beeps were just one long beep then pause then the same long beep. I removed one stick of memory, booted it back up, and no beeps this time. BUT now I've come to the point where the PC won't beep, and it won't give me a screen to see anything either.

I've already tried to reset the CMOS by removing the battery and moving the jumper for a bit and then moving it back. I have had no luck. All fans seem to be working fine, and when I put a disc in the drive it does act like it wants to do stuff but it still gives me no display.

The motherboard is a MSI K7N2 Delta2 Platinum. The little msi agp 8x fan inside also stopped working but the CPU fan works. If anyone has one of htese motherboard with a working fan I would happily purchase it off of you. I only need the fan, not the heatsink.

 

[CountMike]

GPU fan is not going to stop GPU from working, most likely dead GPU.

 

[AshleyKooky]

GPU fan is not going to stop GPU from working, most likely dead GPU.

The GPU fan is working.

 

[CountMike]

Well, you said it's not turning, anyway,
That's an old MB, visually check all electrolytic capacitors on it. There's an X scratched in the top and should be flat, if any is bulged up that capacitor is kaput and that can stop everything in it's tracks. Being that old, CMOS battery may be flat and would need to be changed.

 

[AshleyKooky]

No this fan is not a part of the GPU. This fan is a tiny fan that came with the motherboard. It has a small heatsink of its own to the left of the CPU. There's already a nvidia GPU installed. I will try a new CMOS battery, never thought of trying that yet.

 

[CountMike]

Oh, that's a North Bridge, part of chipset. Did you check capacitors ? They were real pain in you know what, I changed them a lot. Newer MBs have solid caps and are not affected.

 

[AshleyKooky]

Yes I have checked the capacitors. Luckily none of them are damaged. From the info I got from my old coworker, the day the tiny fan stopped working the computer started to not post and beeped at him. After I removed one of the old sticks of memory it stopped beeping at me. (Go figure) I may also try the two original sticks of memory in the main memory slots just in case the two new ones I put in aren't exactly doing what they should be.

 

[CountMike]

Reset BIOS while you are at it, specially between switching RAM.

 

[Wayfall]

Hi

Could you try running through this list then get back to us:
http://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0ahUKEwj2ie3UspXKAhXFshQKHaRPCjAQFgggMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Fforum%2F261145-31-perform-steps-posting-post-boot-video-problems&usg=AFQjCNGvZ-tX7rcQh24N1sSpNpSFSKDFug&sig2=BugCdwtwNWYFGH8-2z2E9g

 

[CountMike]

That MB doesn't have all those connectors they mention in that guide. It's pretty straight forward, One 20pin main power and that's it. If it's firing up at all, that's not a problem. Could be GPU itself too, only way is to find out is to swap another one in. Doesn't even have to be AGP, you can use an ordinary PCI (not express). Not easy to find parts for those systems, they are either dead or in a museum.

 

[AshleyKooky]

Well lucky enough for me, the MB wasn't the issue and neither was the GPU. I decided this time to check for if I could feel the hard drive spinning my placing my hand on the drive carefully. I felt no drive activity which told me there was another issue underlying all of this. I tried swapping out the GPU also and no luck, still same issue. I even cloned the hard drive and tried a different hard drive with no luck. So I took a deeper look and checked the CPU. What I found under the FCPU heatsink, is that the CPU was partially black.

And since I don't have any spare CPUs lying around for this motherboard (one is on the way) I grabbed out the new motherboard my uncle had given me for free made by LAN Party. All I needed for that thing was a GPU since it does not have onboard graphics.

Still deciding on if I want to try selling the board with the CPU and the two good memory sticks with it and a GPU, or if I should take it, slap it into a new PC case, and sell it that way later on down the road.