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Col
12-02-09, 22:48
Sorry to get your attention like that and not describe the nature of the topic very well in the title, but that's prety much all I know.

Was using the computer fine last night. Nothing was any different to any other day. I haven't used it today because I only just got home. Left for uni at 7:45am, started uni at 9am, been at uni until 4pm, then there was a birthday party, so this is my first time back home today.

Went to turn on my computer, pressed the power button, and I can hear mechanical noises. These noises are NORMAL. They sound like the hard drives initialising. However, there is no fan activity except on my PSU, and nothing is working at all. No picture on the screen, and a red LED is illuminated on the graphics card.

I haven't really had a chance to attempt to rectify the problem myself yet, but any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks
alexnifty
12-02-09, 23:02
The processor fan doesn't spin up?
Col
12-02-09, 23:05
Nope. None of the fans except for that in the PSU.
alexnifty
12-02-09, 23:09
Hmm, might be your mobo is dead :( Has the CPU fan come loose from its connection?
Col
12-02-09, 23:12
Nope.
alexnifty
12-02-09, 23:22
Tried taking out components one by one until it does? GPU, RAM, etc.
coiler
13-02-09, 10:12
sounds like dead mobo to me
alexnifty
13-02-09, 10:49
sounds like dead mobo to me

Yep. If he takes the mobo out of the case and then unplugs everything except the CPU and it still doesn't work then mobo = dead.
coiler
13-02-09, 11:05
Its all your salubrious overclocking col ;)
alexnifty
13-02-09, 11:15
Its all your salubrious overclocking col ;)

That's a mighty big word for you at this time of the day, been on the proPlus ?
coiler
13-02-09, 13:38
That's a mighty big word for you at this time of the day, been on the proPlus ?

Douwe Egberts finest coffee :coffee::coffee: :lol:
alexnifty
13-02-09, 13:59
Douwe Egberts finest coffee :coffee::coffee: :lol:

Eurgh, can't stand that stuff. I prefer the coffee I get off the market :)
Col
13-02-09, 17:06
I'm going to start taking it apart now an reassembling it bit-by-bit to see what happens, now that I have the time. Why should I take the mobo out of the case? I can understand disconnecting everything.

The closest thing to "overclocking" that I've ever done is realised that my RAM was the wrong voltage, but rather than sending it back, I just changed the voltage settings in the BIOS.
Lynx
13-02-09, 17:08
You can see if there is a gold standoff pin shorting the mobo by taking it out of the case.
Col
13-02-09, 17:31
Unlikely, but I'll check that. It's been fine for nearly a year.

Annoyingly, I'm not allowed to open an RMA for it for some reason, but it's still in warranty, ordered on February 27th 2008.
Col
14-02-09, 20:30
Waiting for a response from Gigabyte tech support now. I checked all my connections and reconnected everything. Same symptoms. I haven't removed the board to check if a standoff is shorting it, but I still don't think that's likely because otherwise it would have happened ages ago.
numberguy
27-03-09, 11:12
Eurgh, can't stand that stuff. I prefer the coffee I get off the market :)

thats not coffee thats camel dung

also run a check on the output from the PSU some have a small fuse that could have blown
alexnifty
27-03-09, 11:19
Pretty sure they don't sell camel dung at the market. Dowe Smegberts definitely is though.
Col
27-03-09, 13:54
The problem has been sorted for a while now, but I still don't know why or what the problem was. All I did was take it all apart and put it back together exactly as it was.
El Wayneo
27-03-09, 23:39
Most likely would have been an electrical short then.
SIMON11
01-04-09, 18:43
The problem has been sorted for a while now, but I still don't know why or what the problem was. All I did was take it all apart and put it back together exactly as it was.

Amazing what can be achieved with a bit of tinkering.
Great stuff!!!