Oops?

[.Wilier.]

System Specs:
AMD 64 3500 Newcastle
Gigabyte 939Ultra
1gb Corsair XMS
Gainward 6800GT
Enermax 600Watt PSU
Scythe Kamikobo CPU cooler.
XP Pro SP2

The other day I set the above machine off, just downloading some stuff and it ended up staying on for a couple of days. About 3 days in, I came home from work and the machine had turned itself off. Odd I thought, so I booted it up again, all the fans came on, but the machine switched off before the GPU post screen came up.
Thinking the graphics card had died, I swapped it for a 6600, but to no avail.
I then took the cooler off, cleaned the gunk off, and fitted a standard AMD cooler, same thing. Turn on, the fans fire up but before the screen comes out of stand-by, the machine stops.

Just so Ive got things straight, the post order should be graphics---->CPU---->memory----> drives etc?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.....Im begining to think the CPU has failed in some way.......but surely the GPU would still initially post....no?

 

[Chilly]

take the CPU out and see what it does. Sounds similar to my machine when the gpu overheated and melted after it had been on for about a month. I now over-cool all my components as standard

 

[.Wilier.]

I'll give it a shot, the only thing that worries me is the fact that Ive tried 2 cards :/

 

[.Wilier.]

Right,

Tried without any memory or a CPU last night and exactly the same thing happened. No beeps no nothing

BIOS problem perhaps?

 

[Lazarus]

tried resetting the BIOS - or is that too obvious?

 

[.Wilier.]

tried resetting the BIOS - or is that too obvious?

Yeah, sorry Laz, should have said. That was the first thing I did. (I assume you mean the CMOS?)

 

[Escape]

Can you try a different PSU?

 

[.Wilier.]

Indeed I can, hadnt really thought of that since the fans etc are still spinning up, but I'll give it a go.

EDIT//
Tried a different PSU, no change.
Ive got an RMA from Ebuyer, so I'll send it the motherboard away today.

 

[.Wilier.]

Well, I can only say that Ebuyer have far out stripped all my expectations.

I sent the board back yesterday, and a new one will arrive at my door-step tomorrow (Sat delivery ).

No explanation as to the fault, just that its broken.

 

[Natswoo]

If it's not beeping then it sounds something todo with the motherboard....

 

[TdC]

oO Wilier! sorry I wasn't about earlier to drop in my 2p

you have 2 512 dimms making up your 1gb? try using the one, and then the other to see if one is fried. I had that happen to me on an old pII mobo and believe me, you'd never heard such language once I sussed it

anyhoo, if you've done so and I read over it, forgive me. it's waaaay early on a saturday morning and I'm at work

 

[Ch3tan]

Early? pfft. I was at work from 7am to 5:30 today. 8 would have been a nice lay in.