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Mr-E
December 11th, 2003, 09:16 AM
I have an issue with my fathers computer that I believe is a motherboard issue, but I am looking for some guidence.

Background:

THe other day my father went to his office and found that his computer was trying to read from the dvd drive and the cd-r drive. It was sitching back and forth from each drive. Also of note, the HD light was flickering as well.

He turned his monitor on and got no response. Tried waking the computer up, no response.

He powered down, waited and powered back up.

It did the saome thing.

Fast-farward to last night:

I turned the machin on and got the same thing. I noticed that it will not post, nor does it give any beeps as to what could be wrong.

THe drives continue to try and spin up.

THere is no video signal going to the monitor.

I unplugged all the drive to see if it would post. Nothing.

I took the memory out think I would at least get some kind of beep code from the MoBo. Again, no response.

I am stumped, any help would be very appreciated.

The MoBo is am k7s5a with a Slot A AMD processor. It has 256 mb of ram, agp graphics card, 4 channel sound card, DVD drive, CD-R drive and 2 HD.

DVD & CD-R are on IDE-2
HD's are on IDE-1

THanks in advance for your help.

Mr-E.
TripleRLtd
December 11th, 2003, 09:38 AM
Welcome to Windrivers Mr-E.http://forums.windrivers.com/images/smilies/thumbs.gif
Your suspicion is most likely correct.
Leave only the VGA, CPU and Ram connected.
Disconnect all the drives as well.
Boot up.
Anything?
Take out VGA and boot.
Any beeps?
Ruslan
December 11th, 2003, 09:51 PM
It could be also defective Power Supply - check it out...
Mr-E
December 13th, 2003, 08:23 AM
:wave: Thanks for the welcome.

Sounds good. I have done everything except detach the VGA card.

I will try that tomarrow when I head over there for family diner.

Thanks for the help.

Mr-E

Welcome to Windrivers Mr-E.http://forums.windrivers.com/images/smilies/thumbs.gif
Your suspicion is most likely correct.
Leave only the VGA, CPU and Ram connected.
Disconnect all the drives as well.
Boot up.
Anything?
Take out VGA and boot.
Any beeps?
Mr-E
December 13th, 2003, 08:26 AM
How does one check a power supply? Last time I tried, I let the magic smoke out of my multi-meter :eek2:

THanks for your help,

Mr-E

It could be also defective Power Supply - check it out...