- Apr 18, 2013
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Hi All,
I could really use some help troubleshooting a system failure I experienced recently. My system had been running perfectly fine for 3 years. The system was accidentally placed too close to a heating register which I strongly suspect caused the failure. The system was just sitting idle when I heard it turn off. When I try to turn it back on this happens:
All the fans and lights come on on the motherboard and case (the fans seem to be running at a fairly high speed, higher than when the system is normally at idle)
I can hear the the hard drives spin up
There is no beep from the system speaker as far as I can tell
There is no video at all
The system does not appear to be booting at all
When I press caps lock/num lock on the keyboard the respective indicator lights do not light up
Here's what I have tried as far as troubleshooting:
1) I have two sticks of memory installed, I tried each individually with no change
2) I swapped the video card with no change
3) I swapped the CPU for an identical chip with no change
4) I sent my motherboard to Gigabyte and received it back with a note saying that it tested fine.
I would appreciate any help you guys can provide me on diagnosing the problem. It seems like the power supply is the only thing I haven't checked yet, but seeing as all the fans and hard drives spin up it seems unlikely that the PSU is the issue? Is there a way to test it without swapping it out for a replacement?
Thanks in advance for your help, I am really stumped at this point!
I could really use some help troubleshooting a system failure I experienced recently. My system had been running perfectly fine for 3 years. The system was accidentally placed too close to a heating register which I strongly suspect caused the failure. The system was just sitting idle when I heard it turn off. When I try to turn it back on this happens:
All the fans and lights come on on the motherboard and case (the fans seem to be running at a fairly high speed, higher than when the system is normally at idle)
I can hear the the hard drives spin up
There is no beep from the system speaker as far as I can tell
There is no video at all
The system does not appear to be booting at all
When I press caps lock/num lock on the keyboard the respective indicator lights do not light up
Here's what I have tried as far as troubleshooting:
1) I have two sticks of memory installed, I tried each individually with no change
2) I swapped the video card with no change
3) I swapped the CPU for an identical chip with no change
4) I sent my motherboard to Gigabyte and received it back with a note saying that it tested fine.
I would appreciate any help you guys can provide me on diagnosing the problem. It seems like the power supply is the only thing I haven't checked yet, but seeing as all the fans and hard drives spin up it seems unlikely that the PSU is the issue? Is there a way to test it without swapping it out for a replacement?
Thanks in advance for your help, I am really stumped at this point!
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