Help -- tried everything i can think of!!

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Well what a day yesterday - all is well with the pc and then suddenly nothing!

Current setup was:

E6600, 2gb of ballistix, Gigabyte DS3 P965 and 8800GT and sammy pebble monitor.

All fine no hassles for months etc etc.

got a 2nd hand quad core (Q6600) from members market. installed that yesterday morning - boots fine, stock speeds etc - played COD4, internet etc etc for about 2 hours no problems. Shutdown pc about lunchtime. Started it up about 1pm and everything sounded fine for about 10 seconds (hard drives spin up, fans and leds on etc etc) but nothing appears on the screen. Checked all connections from gfx card to monitor etc etc but nothing again - screen saying no signal recieved.

Also computer didn't make it's normal single small beep on boot up. Checked all components - reseated gfx, check cpu, cooler, ram etc etc, all cables connected etc etc. Numerous times but small thing happens. hard drives appear/sounds like spinning, fans on etc etc but nothing on screen. Tried both DVI outputs from back of gfx card etc.

Then tried with a LCD tv from bedroom and same thing, no signal received.

At this point i was fairly sure it was the gfx card that was gone. (only about 3 weeks old)

Mananged to get hold of a new 7200gs card (pci-e) and put that into system to make sure it was the gfx card but again nothing appears on the screen, tried DVI leads, VGA leads etc.

so basically i have tried all combinations i can think of to try and elminate what the problem is but getting no where.

Tried E6600 and Q6600, 2 monitors, 2 gfx cards. Decide it was the motherboard that was goosed, new motherboard installed (asus P5K deluxe). Again nothing - all combinations of cpu, gfx , ram (1 stick or 2 sticks in all four slots in both motherboards etc etc). Clear CMOS on both boards numerous times.

Still just getting No signal received on either monitor.

I am really at the end of my tether with it. I honestly can't think of anything else to try. No one else i know near me has a core2 duo system that i could test with, can probably try my RAm and monitor with my dads pc to rule them out but otherwise any suggestions????:confused::confused:

HELP you good people of overclockers!!!
 
With the experience ive had with crucial ballistix, i wouldnt rule that out at all. Try diferent RAM and see what happens.
 
Unplug everything (HDD, CD, Graphics, Ram, external and internal USB devices) except the CPU and fire it up. You should get some beeps complaining about not having any RAM installed. If this works, install the ram and boot again. The system should now beep as there is no graphics installed. Install the graphics card and see if the BIOS posts.

If there are no beeps with only the CPU in, then the problem lies with what is left.. i.e. the CPU, motherboard or PSU.... but as you have tried a different motherboard and CPU, then it could be the PSU.

Good luck.
 
LeeG said:
Unplug everything (HDD, CD, Graphics, Ram, external and internal USB devices) except the CPU and fire it up. You should get some beeps complaining about not having any RAM installed. If this works, install the ram and boot again. The system should now beep as there is no graphics installed. Install the graphics card and see if the BIOS posts.

If there are no beeps with only the CPU in, then the problem lies with what is left.. i.e. the CPU, motherboard or PSU.... but as you have tried a different motherboard and CPU, then it could be the PSU.

Good luck.
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cheers will try that later on - seems weird that the psu just suddenly goes. As it powers the hard drives, fans, leds etc etc could it still be busted? It's a Tagan 530W one about 2 years old
 
If it does start to post, don't forget to plug in your HDD's and CD's 1 at a time aswell between each reboot. This way you will easily find the faulty hardware.
 
i had this happen to me a few weeks ago, pc was fine. then hung no reboot. turned out to be 1 stick of ram cooked. investigated further and the buggy bios of doom had been feeding them 3.25v again. stuck in my 2*512mb sticks and left the 1 gig sticks perched on a norwegian phrase book for a week.

stuck them back in to confirm which had died for rma, and they both work fine :/ no explaining it. they, touch wood, still working fine to date..

anyway, yeh, check the ram out with a cheapo stick :)
 
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not good is the answer.

It's not the monitor - that works fine with my dads pc. One down.

It would appear NOT to be the psu - i hook my psu up to my dads pc and it works fine.

So left with ram, cpu, motherboard, gfx card.

Having bought a new motherboard it would be 95% certain it's not that so left with cpu, ram and gfx card. I am very tempted to say both cpu's are knackered. Reason being i am not getting any beeps or anything when i connect just the motherboard, psu and cpu. get nothing.

Will not be happy it thats the case - E6600 & Q6600!!!

Tried building up outside of the case etc to rule out any shorting and alike but nothing again.

I really need to find someone near my with a working system and try my components in that to find out. None of my mates have c2d systems though so it's anightmare.

Anyone got any pals with systems or alike in Glasgow/Ayrshire etc that would let me test the components etc???

HELP!!!
 
are you able to rule out gfx/ram in dads system, or a friends system? then you can be more confident about it being cpu's. there have been (very) rare cases where a bad mobo kills a cpu, but its not a common thing.
 
Amonlym said:
are you able to rule out gfx/ram in dads system, or a friends system? then you can be more confident about it being cpu's. there have been (very) rare cases where a bad mobo kills a cpu, but its not a common thing.
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Dad's dell didn;t seem to like the Ballistix ram but can;t be sure that it's just not compatible so not sure.

Also no PCi-e slot only agp motherboard so no ability to rule out gfx at this stage.
 
well after some extensive testing it appears to be both sticks of ballistix are dead and also looks like the new Asus motherboard was dead on arrival!!

Got a loan of some cheap ram for the time being and have arranged an RMA for the ballistix as it's lifetime warrantied.

Back to the trusty DS3 P965 board and hopefully all will be well till the RMA'd ram comes back.
 
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