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"Ahh, Help!"

Ok. This hapopened on monday.

PC crashed.

Not a big deal.

Then I pulled out the power cable, and reconnected it. Pressed the power button.

Nothing.

Fans whir, a few clicks, but a completly blank screen.

I know it's not the monitor, because as soon as I pulled out the monitor cable from my graphics card, it came up with a "No Signal Input" display...

Specs:

Gigabyte Motherboard (two months old)
1GB Ram (2 months)
Connect 3D ATi Radeon 9600XT (2 months)
Pentium 4 3.2GHz CPU (1 month)
120 GB HDD
2x DVD Drive

What's happened? Has the CPU fried? Is my Mobo AWOL???

Help!!!

No...

Sorry, thanks...

Define? I didn't know that existed...

Sounds almost exactly like the problem my brother had which was also a gigabyte motherboard. The BIOS chip had to be replaced.

Bios chip?

Yeah, just RMA your board and they will take care of the rest.

Try turning the PSU off, either by flicking it's switch, flicking the wall switch or unplugging the power cord from the back. Then turn the computer on at the front, holding down the power button for a few seconds. Plug it all back in and see if anything's different.

Also have you reset the CMOS? Your motherboard manual should explain how to do this, it involves moving a jumper (a little metal contact in a plastic sleeve) from it's normal position bridging two pins somewhere on your motherboard to another position for a few seconds, then moving it back.

Meh, stoopid me...

Bent the IDE pin...

:(

Gonnna get another GAK1100 mobo, it worked great... Any other P4 mobo better I should know about?

Pop...

King of Socket 478 boards is the Abit IC7 Max 3. Although it does cost a fair amount - if you can get one. Also look at the standard IC7, or possibly even the slightly lower end IS7. All from Abit.

The Asus P4C800 is the best Asus board and also very good. Again however it is pricey, so also consider the Asus P4P800.

They are the ones that spring to mind to me anyway.

However, if memory serves me correctly, your motherboard has dual BIOSes on it, so I think that rules out the BIOS.

Sounds liek you've popped a transistor on the motherboard or scrambled the BIOS. I think your only solution is to use the BIOS reset jumper (change its position, try to turn the computer on, then turn the computer off and put the jumper back to its original position). If that doesn't work, RMA the board.

FYI you shouldn't hard-reset a computer with the power lead EVER, always hold down the power button for 5 seconds or hit reset. Removing the power lead creates a voltage differential between the cable and the pins - it sparks, there's a voltage surge and any number of things could happen, especially with cheap PSUs.

Turbonutter wrote:
> FYI you shouldn't hard-reset a computer with the power lead EVER,
> always hold down the power button for 5 seconds or hit reset.
> Removing the power lead creates a voltage differential between the
> cable and the pins - it sparks, there's a voltage surge and any
> number of things could happen, especially with cheap PSUs.

I hard reset about 3 times a week on average, this Computer has been dodgy for a while, and for some reason randomly resets, (methinks due to a large load of processes or something) and tells me no mouse or keyboard are plugged in, so i have to pull the power cable out to sort it...