mainboard / cpu br0ken?

well well well /cf/

I got some prombels with my pc :[

it started the other day, when I was doing nothing but watching a video on youtube. suddenly my monitor went off and the pc did basicly stop doing anything. so I hit the reset button, but nothing happened.

I turned the whole thing off and on again, and it wouldnt even boot. I waited another 10 minutes and then it booted again. that's when I thought it was an overheating problem...

I downloaded pc probe thingy (asus motherboard monitor) and checked all the temperatures, and they were ok. but the pc crashed again and now it won't even boot anymore.

when I hit the power button the pc gets power, the fans all work but it doesnt boot. it doesnt even get to the first beep. monitor stays black :\ yes, that means I can't even access the bios.

what I tried: remove the mainboard battery for 30 minutes, removed ram, cpu, graphic card, checked all wires. but nothing helped and its still the same. what it does though, it gives me the beeps that graphic card was missing if I remove it etc.

sounds like my mainboard was broken, eh?

I googled around a bit but that kinda left me clueless and I guess I'll have to buy new hardware, but I kinda dont see the sense in just buying an older mainboard that I can't upgrade anymore (I need a socket 775)... or spending 300-400 euros for something that's kind of up-to-date.

maybe someone has any idea if that sounds like a mainboard problem at all, or maybe its the cpu? :[
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Could be anything really.
what about psu?
you wrote about RAM, did you try different RAM already?
also power supply could be swapped if you have one around.
ofc CPU could be damaged but thats the worst case scenario.
try unplugging the harddisk and any other devices too, if the PC boots, they could make the sys failing too, had this once, PC wouldn't boot at all, while the harddisk was attached.
I got 2 ram sticks, tried both seperatly

and I got no other power supply... the fans and everything still run so at least it doesnt seem like it was broken. didn't check if there is enough voltage coming through though
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dont have any reserve?
tried harddisk yet?
power supply (netzteil)?
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no, gonna try that as soon as I get home, am at work now :P
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steck mal die festplatte ab und schau ob du so ins bios kommst
werd ich tun
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würde ma sagn, bios abgeraucht :x nachmacher :x
Tried to use a magnet on your HDD?
tl;dr

just buy new one :~>
I had a similar problem and in my case it turned out to be graphics (8800gts 512) - even though it was working on some mobos, on others it would give such a problems - sometimes beeps and reboot, sometimes nothing at all, only fans going on forever - I gave it to my brother, for whom it worked, and 1 month later it stopped booting as well ;)

It might not be the same thing, I guess my problem is kind of rare ;)
wootwoot... I got the same graphiccard
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Ops... and I boughta 2nd one (gigabyte as well), used, but described as working and it give me the same results ;)

But this problem was so annoying I never knew what is the case. Though what I tried was different mobo, different cpu (p4 for s750), different psu - and nothing worked tbh :p

Though sometimes, randomly, it would boot, which only pissed me off even more :D

But bear in mind, it doesn't have to be gpu, I don't want to be blamed afterwards ;) I'm still not sure the reason ;)
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guess what it was?

the graphic card... I bought a new mainboard, cpu + ram (wanted to upgrade a bit anyway), installed everything, same result, nothing happened.

hit the store, got a new g-card et voila! it works x)
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Oh lol, you must have spent a lot of € then :p

Thanks for the info, I'm now even more convinced that this only graphics :p I wasn't sure whether my mobo slots were broken as well or something ^^

Too bad I was changing job recently, and my previous boss doesn't seen to be going to pay me my last month earnings :(
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the memory of ur gfx is damaged. the 8800gt/gts/gtx series got the problem of overheating memory cause the fan on the 8800 series is too small. i got the same problem with my xfx 8800gt. so buy a new gfx and all ur problems will be solved :)
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harddrive prob hade it to :) format will fix it
what kind of psu motherboard cpu.
620W power supply (no idea what brand) - Asus P5K board - E8400 dualcore
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whos dat h omo in profile pic?

oh snap
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ow. that hurt :[
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620W power supply (no idea what brand)
Just look the label. Bad PSU will kill your hardware.

And further, there is many socket 775 stuff second hand.
So if you search good you should be able to find a motherboard atleast. ( P35 / X38 / P45 / X48 motherboard ) around 30~60 euro depending on chipset/board. Just make sure the board you will buy have a bios that will support the E8400, in case of P35/X38 chipset.
I would start with finding another motherboard if you are sure that motherboard or cpu is the problem. A processor wont die suddenly.

But you can also buy new stuff if you can afford it.
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I guess could afford new hardware, but mine is only about 2 years old :\
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Had the same problem. Exactly the fucking same...I have no clue about hardware and ended up buying a new MB and a new CPU - which ended in buying new DDR, too.

Also with Asus P5 Deluxe MB.. ;)
ask hukk, he had every pc-problem already
finally, bye.
sorry To hear your having troubles Mr. Wsk my PC is also dead so I am unable to play :<
I saw ur butt on facebook
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You see more than my butt if you carry on looking!
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ur butt was more than enough already, thx :D
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Most mobos have debug LEDs or something. Those are LEDs that light up in different parts of the POST process, and then if an error occurs they form a certain sequence most of the time, which you can look up in the manual to see where the problem is. My old mobo had a 2-digit number screen instead of the LEDs and it was quite handy, as it displayed an error code when something went wrong and you could match it up in the manual.
that sounds good, unfortunatly my mobo does only have one green LED that basicly tells if there is power or not... I'll check the manual again if there is anything else
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