Was in the middle of playing a game of SupComm with my housemate yesterday, and all of a sudden my screen went "No Signal" and the sound started buzzing.
Thought "sod it", turned off and went to watch TV, tried to boot up today and everything turned on, but no signal on monitor, also wasn't able to turn off using the power switch, had to turn of the PSU. I checked a couple things, unplugged the PSU, reseated memory, gfx card etc, turned back on and got no signal again, and a constant repeated beep, e.g. beep, 1 second pause, beep and repeat.
I eventually managed to get it to boot, by unplugging the ATX connector from the motherboard. Booted into Windows, and it seems to be working... until I try playing something, was playing Evil Genius before, and it did the same thing.
I've done a couple of google searches and couldn't find much. The only thing I found was something about the PSU?
I'm inclined to think it's the motherboard, I've tested with another gfx card, and it was doing the same thing.
Anyway, this is the specs: (it's about 3-4 years old now =/)
Sapphire PC-A9RD480Adv
2GB geil DDR400 something (blue heatsinks)
Athlon64 X2 4200+
Sapphire X1900XTX
Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX2.0 Cable Detachable PSU
It's also running 4 SATA HDD
O/S is Vista business (x86), but I've also checked with a dual boot of XP and it does the same, so I don't think it's that.
Anyone got any ideas? I'm half tempted to just ditch it and spend a few hundred on a complete new rig, but I can't really afford it just now.
Thought "sod it", turned off and went to watch TV, tried to boot up today and everything turned on, but no signal on monitor, also wasn't able to turn off using the power switch, had to turn of the PSU. I checked a couple things, unplugged the PSU, reseated memory, gfx card etc, turned back on and got no signal again, and a constant repeated beep, e.g. beep, 1 second pause, beep and repeat.
I eventually managed to get it to boot, by unplugging the ATX connector from the motherboard. Booted into Windows, and it seems to be working... until I try playing something, was playing Evil Genius before, and it did the same thing.
I've done a couple of google searches and couldn't find much. The only thing I found was something about the PSU?
I'm inclined to think it's the motherboard, I've tested with another gfx card, and it was doing the same thing.
Anyway, this is the specs: (it's about 3-4 years old now =/)
Sapphire PC-A9RD480Adv
2GB geil DDR400 something (blue heatsinks)
Athlon64 X2 4200+
Sapphire X1900XTX
Ultra X-Connect 500W ATX2.0 Cable Detachable PSU
It's also running 4 SATA HDD
O/S is Vista business (x86), but I've also checked with a dual boot of XP and it does the same, so I don't think it's that.
Anyone got any ideas? I'm half tempted to just ditch it and spend a few hundred on a complete new rig, but I can't really afford it just now.
