Hi guys,
My pc has been working fine for some time now until recently, when windows xp stopped working giving me bsod messages everytime it booted up or would boot up then login and then crash with a bsod. (sorry i dont have bsod msg noted down)
Anyway i had a second hard drive with ubuntu linux on it so i booted into that and used that for a while and i could still read my old files from my xp harddrive.
So i decided to buy vista and 2gb more ram (already have 2gb in) to install over xp. It turned up in the post so i installed the ram and i started to back up my data using linux to copy from my xp hd to my linux hd. Half waf through copying about 22 gigs it froze so i rebooted.
When i rebooted my bios asus screen icon looked strange discoloured and sortof slanted almost unreadable. Nothing happened so i rebooted again and the logo looked even more unrecognisable then i restarted one more time and it told me there was a fatal error booting and put me into the bios so i looked through the bios options and then it just shutitself down before i did anything.
Now when i turn on my pc i just get a black screen on my pc, the fans spin the harddrives spin but no power to my mouse or keyboard and nothing showing on my monitor. Both graphics cards fans spin.
I figured it was the ram or something so i removed the ram and there was no change.
I tried to reset the bios by removing the battery and switching the jumper as stated in my motherboard manual. Still no change.
There are no burn/discoloration marks or popped resistors as far as i can see.
My pc has 2 Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3 sli i tried my monitor in both nothing still, so i tried another monitor and nothing on that either.
Anyone got any ideas what it could be, any help much appreciated.
Note i had problems when i first built my pc could this be the root of my problems?
Some initial damage i may have done when i first built it by shorting the board?
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic91547.html
David
MY PC
motherboard : asus m2n sli deluxe
processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+
Ram :
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Graphics Card :
Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3
Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3
Case : Raidmax Sagitta Black/Silver Gaming Case With Side Window - With 500W PSU
Cooling : Thermalright Ultra-120 EXTREME CPU Heatpipe Heatsink with Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM 120mm Fan
My pc has been working fine for some time now until recently, when windows xp stopped working giving me bsod messages everytime it booted up or would boot up then login and then crash with a bsod. (sorry i dont have bsod msg noted down)
Anyway i had a second hard drive with ubuntu linux on it so i booted into that and used that for a while and i could still read my old files from my xp harddrive.
So i decided to buy vista and 2gb more ram (already have 2gb in) to install over xp. It turned up in the post so i installed the ram and i started to back up my data using linux to copy from my xp hd to my linux hd. Half waf through copying about 22 gigs it froze so i rebooted.
When i rebooted my bios asus screen icon looked strange discoloured and sortof slanted almost unreadable. Nothing happened so i rebooted again and the logo looked even more unrecognisable then i restarted one more time and it told me there was a fatal error booting and put me into the bios so i looked through the bios options and then it just shutitself down before i did anything.
Now when i turn on my pc i just get a black screen on my pc, the fans spin the harddrives spin but no power to my mouse or keyboard and nothing showing on my monitor. Both graphics cards fans spin.
I figured it was the ram or something so i removed the ram and there was no change.
I tried to reset the bios by removing the battery and switching the jumper as stated in my motherboard manual. Still no change.
There are no burn/discoloration marks or popped resistors as far as i can see.
My pc has 2 Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3 sli i tried my monitor in both nothing still, so i tried another monitor and nothing on that either.
Anyone got any ideas what it could be, any help much appreciated.
Note i had problems when i first built my pc could this be the root of my problems?
Some initial damage i may have done when i first built it by shorting the board?
https://www.techspot.com/vb/topic91547.html
David
MY PC
motherboard : asus m2n sli deluxe
processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 6400+
Ram :
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400
Graphics Card :
Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3
Point Of View 7600GT 256mb DDR3
Case : Raidmax Sagitta Black/Silver Gaming Case With Side Window - With 500W PSU
Cooling : Thermalright Ultra-120 EXTREME CPU Heatpipe Heatsink with Scythe S-FLEX 1600RPM 120mm Fan