This is my 1st post here, so Hi there everybody!
I've got a problem with my PC. 3 days ago, while working, it froze. Nothing serious I thought. However, yesterday it froze again, so as usual in these cases, I reset it.
After resetting it, the screen went black (obviously) but nothing else happened. I could hear the fans, the CPU fan, the disks spinning..but no "start-up" beep at all, not a sequence of beeps, just nothing. Black screen and no POST message, no cursor...
I opened it, cleaned the fans, dust, I assured the connexions and tried again. Nothing.
Ok, I thought it could be the 420 W Power Unit. I had a brand new replacement, so I changed it. I tried again and it booted and everything went perfect. After 5 hours,it hanged, I restarted it again and it froze while fading in the Windows XP logo. I rebooted again and it started normally. At night, after having worked for a few hours, I turned it off.
This morning I switched it on and again, no POST message,no beeping, again, nothing at all. No strange noises, fans spin normally, HDisks spin though no HD loading activity can be heard at all. Keyboard is not responsive and have no access to BIOS.
It could be I have a defficient electric wiring at home which destroys power units, but I have an active UPS, so it can't be that.
Is my Asus mobo the defective thing? If I open the case, the green led in my mobo is on, and as far as I know this is an indicative that mobo is ok, or.. am I wrong?
My PC is an ASUS mobo + PIV processor @ 2.4 Ghz, kingston memory etc (I don't think exact information is much relevant because the issue seems to be before testing the rest of the attached devices to the mobo).
Any suggestion, idea?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,
I've got a problem with my PC. 3 days ago, while working, it froze. Nothing serious I thought. However, yesterday it froze again, so as usual in these cases, I reset it.
After resetting it, the screen went black (obviously) but nothing else happened. I could hear the fans, the CPU fan, the disks spinning..but no "start-up" beep at all, not a sequence of beeps, just nothing. Black screen and no POST message, no cursor...
I opened it, cleaned the fans, dust, I assured the connexions and tried again. Nothing.
Ok, I thought it could be the 420 W Power Unit. I had a brand new replacement, so I changed it. I tried again and it booted and everything went perfect. After 5 hours,it hanged, I restarted it again and it froze while fading in the Windows XP logo. I rebooted again and it started normally. At night, after having worked for a few hours, I turned it off.
This morning I switched it on and again, no POST message,no beeping, again, nothing at all. No strange noises, fans spin normally, HDisks spin though no HD loading activity can be heard at all. Keyboard is not responsive and have no access to BIOS.
It could be I have a defficient electric wiring at home which destroys power units, but I have an active UPS, so it can't be that.
Is my Asus mobo the defective thing? If I open the case, the green led in my mobo is on, and as far as I know this is an indicative that mobo is ok, or.. am I wrong?
My PC is an ASUS mobo + PIV processor @ 2.4 Ghz, kingston memory etc (I don't think exact information is much relevant because the issue seems to be before testing the rest of the attached devices to the mobo).
Any suggestion, idea?
Thanks in advance.
Cheers,