Dead Computer, Help Please!!

[ronb1969]

I built a all new rig and it ran just fine for about a month then while downloading a simple game patch it crashed to post with an error message of AWDFlash.exe not found. After that the computer screen is blank and does not respond. All the fans and lights come on but I can't even get into safe mode or bios. The drive lights come on at power up like normal but the floppy doesn't. The red led on the front comes on at power up for a few seconds then goes out and thats it.

Any help at this point would be apprecited. Thanks

Asus A8N-SLI
AMD Athalon 64 3200
Antec Smat Power 450
Corsair CMX 512 X 2 400 DDR Dim with heat Spreader
PNY GForce 6800 GS 256meg
Samsung Spinpoint 160 gig HDD Sata
NEC DVD Rd/rw
Sony 16X DVD ROM/40X CD ROM
Mitsumi 7 in 1 floppy card reader

 

[DonNagual]

The first thing you need to try is resetting CMOS. Look in your motherboard's manual to find your CMOS jumpers. It is three small pins, with a jumper on only 2 of them. You need to take that jumper off. If it was on pin "1 and 2", you need to put it on "2 and 3" for a few seconds, then return it to "1 and 2". Read your manual, try it, and get back to us.

Note: if you have overclocked or manually adjusted any settings in your BIOS, this will reset everything to default settings.

Good luck!

 

[ronb1969]

computer DEAD !!

Thanks for reply.

I have already tried resetting the CMOS a couple of time for different lenghts of time and still nothing. no display at all, no sound or beebs either.

 

[DonNagual]

I wonder if you can try and boot from the ASUS support CD to restore your bios. Give it a shot, it is the CD that came with your motherboard.

 

[rogerrabbit]

Hi,
I had a similar problem a while ago.
I found that if I disconected the card reader everything was fine and back to normal,
I hope this helps.

 

[ronb1969]

Dead Computer !!

Thanks guys for your replysand trying to help.

I have tried to boot from the Asus disk, from the XP disk, and even from a floppy boot disk that I had made. Nothing seems to work. I have not tried to boot from a DOS CD though but I'm not sure if that will work either. It seems to just no respond to anything.

I'll try and unhook the card reader and see if that does anything, it deosn't seem to be responding to anything anyway even at power up.

I'm just not sure how to get video back so I can see if anything is going on.

Thanks Again...

 

[Tedster]

I cannot recommend Asus as a motherboard. I had one that never worked from out of the box. I have had a lot of good experience with MSI boards. If were you, I'd get an MSI.

 

[ronb1969]

Dead Computer !!

Hi All,

I removed the card reader and tried to boot, nothing. I even tried to boot without the HDD, nothing. I changed the source on the LCD and used the DVI plug adapter and still nothing, It said check cable no signal.

Yes I'm starting to rethink the Asus thing. A friend of mine has an MSI board and loves them. Also I have been told ASRock boards are very stable. thier starting to look very good.

Any more ideas I can try to get something on the screen would be wonderful.

Thanks to all...

 

[sw123]

Hello:

Actually, you did get something on the screen(FROM THE MONITOR :grinthumb)

I think maybe you have a dead MOBO, but I cant be sure. I recommend reading this post:

What to do If you believe your MOBO or processor is fried

 

[jeepman]

Does this board have on-board video? If so, try removing your video card, and connecting your monitor to the onboard video instead. It wouldn't be the first time I have seen this..