Power problem?

How-do,

I seem to have a little problem with my machine at home. The long and the short of it is I had to power it off hard (from the power supply) the other night. Now, when I turn it on, the MB and the CPU fan power on, but the CD, Floppy and HD do not. So I figured it may be a bad PS, so I bought a new one. Installed it, same thing. Not the PS.

Looking at it this morning at work, I disconnected the IDE cables from the HD and CD drive and turned on the power, they powered up fine. So now I assume it's the MB that is bad.

Specs:
Abit BX133 - Raid MB
PIII 866MHz
512 MB PC-133 SDRAM
300 Watt ATX PS
20Gb IBM HD
GEForce 2 32MB vid AGP

I guess my question is this, would ya'll agree it's the MB? If so, what board would you recommend so I don't have to change processors, RAM or vid card?

Thanks

You might also try new IDE cables? Can you reach the BIOS when the drives are plugged in? Do you get errors about the drives missing or is it just not powering on ( ie lights come on but no picture on monitor )?

Try to plug in just your hard drive and see if the computer will boot, or just the floppy with a bootable disk and see if it will boot. If you have a spare Hard Drive you might try that as well... from what you have described I'm not completely certain that it's your mobo. Good luck.

Thanks Kenny. I already tried new IDE cables, didn't help. I cannot get into the BIOS either. The CD and floppy lights do not come on when I have them connected to the IDE cables. As soon as I disconnect the IDE cables, all my devices power up fine. Wierd.

I don't get any error beeps from the MB either. I will try new cables one more time just to be certain.

Any other ideas?

Thanks again

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by pmetal:
<strong>
I guess my question is this, would ya'll agree it's the MB? If so, what board would you recommend so I don't have to change processors, RAM or vid card?
Thanks</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">It could be just only bad HDD or CDROM - did You check them?

Or IDE cable connected vise-versa (i.e. wrong way) - it couldn't be?

As for motherboard (if it's really bad motherboard) - I would recommend ASUS TUSL-2C.
That board is cheap enough because it's just only Intel 815EP B-step chipset, what bit outdated nowadays. But there are no points to spend too much money on motherboard for outdated anyways processor, IMHO.

Thanks to all who responded. I tried all of the suggestions and eventually decided to take it to a friend who is a tech at a local retail joint. It turns out it was in fact the MB, so he threw a new one in for me. All they had was Soyo, which I don't know much about, but it was under $100, so I took it.

Thanks again

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by pmetal:
<strong>Thanks to all who responded. I tried all of the suggestions and eventually decided to take it to a friend who is a tech at a local retail joint. It turns out it was in fact the MB, so he threw a new one in for me. All they had was Soyo, which I don't know much about, but it was under $100, so I took it.

Thanks again</strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Good to know you're back up and running. Better luck next time. :)