DG965WH suddenly will not boot - no bios screen

garymeer

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I am running a DG965WH motherboard with an Intel Q6600 quad CPU, and 4GB memory. I have been using this system for years. A few days ago I replaced the motherboard because of a bad ground. All of the sudden today it stopped, and no will not even bring up the BIOS. The power LED on the motherboard lights, the fans are on, but the BIOS screen does not appear. The power light from the motherboard is not light, and the system does not respond to the shutdown in any other way that the power switch. I have looked, and nothing seems burned, and there is no smell.

Any idea of the cause? Is it the motherboard or the CPU? Any other possibilities?

Specs:

Intel DG965WH Motherboard
Intel Core 2 Q6600 2.3GhZ CPU
Corsair CX500M Power Supply
ASUS EASH5450 Silent Graphics card
Trendnet TFM-PCIV92A modem
Vantec UTG ST310R 6 port SATA II card
6 SATA II drives + 1 SATA II CD-Rom

 

garymeer

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New battery did not fix this. The power supply passed the tests. With nothing plugged into the system except the CPU, the system still fails to bring up the BIOS. I am assuming either the motherboard or the CPU has failed, and am calling it dead.