What's Blown Up?

MFrost · 2 Jul 2007 at 10:59

Hello.

In short, my computer has stopped displaying anything to the screen when switching the on button. It also doesn't do any beeps anymore, whereas it used to beep once.

The long version is this: (very specific and probably not relevant)

Was playing World of Warcraft, was dead and running back to my corpse as a spirit. Literally the second i clicked the accept buttun to resurrect after returning to my corpse, the screen froze, then about 3 seconds later 1 beep came from the computer. There was no response from the computer from then on but the picture was still displayed frozen to the screen.

After a few mins of ctrl+alt+delete and the like, i have to reset the computer.

And now im were i said at the start of the post.

No video to the screen, no beeps, but all hard drives, fans, and graphics card seem to spin up.

Spec
E6700
Gigabyte DS3
BGF 8800gtx
2x 2GB Ram
2x 250gb Hdd
600Watt Crucial PSU

I thought maybe it was the graphics card blowing up or the CPU dieing...but i dont know how to find out exactly what it is.

Any help would be greatfully appreciated!!

Thanks for your time

MFrost

BAMBI · 2 Jul 2007 at 11:02

First of all try to reset CMOS, did you overclock? The best way to test is to try hardware in another machine/exchange parts to isolate the problem.

MFrost · 2 Jul 2007 at 11:06

Erm, the only thing that was overclocked was my CPU but that was only by a small amount up to 3GHz and thats been running stable ever since i built it. Cool and quiet with the 120 Tuniq Tower cooling it.

I don't actually have another computer that will fit any of my parts in it. Would it be best to take the whole thing apart back to the bare basics and try from there?

It's just im not very competant when it comes to taking apart these things and putting them back together - but I am willing to try.

MFrost

BAMBI · 2 Jul 2007 at 11:08

MFrost said:
Erm, the only thing that was overclocked was my CPU but that was only by a small amount up to 3GHz and thats been running stable ever since i built it. Cool and quiet with the 120 Tuniq Tower cooling it.

I don't actually have another computer that will fit any of my parts in it. Would it be best to take the whole thing apart back to the bare basics and try from there?

It's just im not very competant when it comes to taking apart these things and putting them back together - but I am willing to try.

MFrost

Do you have a spare graphics card you can try in your system?

MFrost · 2 Jul 2007 at 11:11

I probably have a spare graphics card i can use but weather or not it will fit into this computer is another question.

I've just managed to get some picture to the screen again by removing one of the sticks of ram. I'll play around for a little while and see if i can get them working again together.

Thanks for the help so far.

MFrost