Ok, breakdown of the issue.
Moved in June, my tower sat in the garage until Friday. I opened the case and cleaned out the dust, during this I removed the cpu heatsink and fan assembly as it was basically caked in dust making the fan useless. Cleaned the old heat paste off the cpu and heatsink with isopropyl alcohol, applied new paste ( electrically non conductive) popped all the cards (nvidia graphics, soundblaster xfi, ddr ram and a modem of some type).
The cpu heat sink fan also did not spin up in the nearby socket, so I had to run the line to an auxiliary case fan jumper to get it running.
Let it all settle, plugged it in and spun it up, unfortunately it only stayed on for a minute, no video. Swapped out a known good hdd and a known good video card (from an older machine, still nvidia, still running xp.) still no video output. I've checked the seating of the cards, all good, but along the way I found a new symptom. No power comes from any of the usb ports.
I think its a shorted mother board, but before I drop the cash and order one, I'd like a second opinion from someone more knowlegeable than I in the subject of computers.
I appreciate any and all input on the subject.
Brandonha
Moved in June, my tower sat in the garage until Friday. I opened the case and cleaned out the dust, during this I removed the cpu heatsink and fan assembly as it was basically caked in dust making the fan useless. Cleaned the old heat paste off the cpu and heatsink with isopropyl alcohol, applied new paste ( electrically non conductive) popped all the cards (nvidia graphics, soundblaster xfi, ddr ram and a modem of some type).
The cpu heat sink fan also did not spin up in the nearby socket, so I had to run the line to an auxiliary case fan jumper to get it running.
Let it all settle, plugged it in and spun it up, unfortunately it only stayed on for a minute, no video. Swapped out a known good hdd and a known good video card (from an older machine, still nvidia, still running xp.) still no video output. I've checked the seating of the cards, all good, but along the way I found a new symptom. No power comes from any of the usb ports.
I think its a shorted mother board, but before I drop the cash and order one, I'd like a second opinion from someone more knowlegeable than I in the subject of computers.
I appreciate any and all input on the subject.
Brandonha
