Hi all,
I'm having problems booting my computer at the moment, not too sure what's causing it but am thinking it's the motherboard. Had a look at it and there doesn't seem to be any visible signs of damage or bugs getting toasted on it. Have also checked out the motherboard FAQ that's posted and that doesn't help either.
My current setup consists of
LeadtekWinFast K7NCR18D-PRO
AMD 2500+ barton core
GeCube Radeon 9600XT 256MB
Creative Audigy 2zs
1.5GB RAM
80GB Samsung HDD (master)
160GB Western Digital HDD (slave)
Razer Copperhead mouse
WinXP pro
The problem is that every time I try to boot my computer one of either 2 things happens (and I have been rebooting for a good half day now to no avail).
1. Screen gets no signal from computer (all connections are secure) and mouse doesn't even light up (ie. Not getting power from USB port), BUT the lights on my graphics card is going fine (the heatsink on it came with leds) and all my system fans are going, harddisk is vibrating indicating it's got some juice going into it, and my 'busy' led on the front of the case is glowing.
2. Screen and mouse go, everything seems to go fine until you get to the bit that¹s right after the bios mem check (right after it says verifying dmi pool something rather) and then the monitor stops receiving a signal and the mouse gets no power too. But the fans, leds and all that are going as per above.
Before this, about a week ago, I had a similar failure but it just worked after a number of attempts at rebooting, (so I've never shut down my computer after that, but then again I hardly do to begin with) but now nothing. One of the more 'successful' attempts at rebooting that I had got all the way to the login screen, but then the monitor and mouse just went off in the middle of logging in. At this stage the login tune was also abruptly stopped, so that probably means it's not just my graphics card. What's weird about it is that all the fans are going, hard drives seem to be vibrating and the leds on my gpu heatsink are still lighting up...
Have also at one stage managed to get into my bios, but then it just stopped as per above (fans and all that going, busy led on, but no signal to monitor, no power to mouse etc), and at other times I can tweak around in the bios till my heart's content.
The only new hardware I have installed is the Razer Copperhead mouse and it's got the latest firmware and drivers. Other than that, just the regular windows updates. Have tried resetting the BIOS settings as well but that doesn't seem to help.
Have also taken everything apart and left only the necessary components in and tried to boot that way but same thing, have also tried booting with the mouse unplugged just incase it was that (but have been using it for 2-3weeks fine now).
Would really like a resolution to this, as at the moment I lack funds to replace the motherboard (am saving up for a upgrade to socket 939+pci-e and I have nowhere near that amount of cash yet)
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I'm having problems booting my computer at the moment, not too sure what's causing it but am thinking it's the motherboard. Had a look at it and there doesn't seem to be any visible signs of damage or bugs getting toasted on it. Have also checked out the motherboard FAQ that's posted and that doesn't help either.
My current setup consists of
LeadtekWinFast K7NCR18D-PRO
AMD 2500+ barton core
GeCube Radeon 9600XT 256MB
Creative Audigy 2zs
1.5GB RAM
80GB Samsung HDD (master)
160GB Western Digital HDD (slave)
Razer Copperhead mouse
WinXP pro
The problem is that every time I try to boot my computer one of either 2 things happens (and I have been rebooting for a good half day now to no avail).
1. Screen gets no signal from computer (all connections are secure) and mouse doesn't even light up (ie. Not getting power from USB port), BUT the lights on my graphics card is going fine (the heatsink on it came with leds) and all my system fans are going, harddisk is vibrating indicating it's got some juice going into it, and my 'busy' led on the front of the case is glowing.
2. Screen and mouse go, everything seems to go fine until you get to the bit that¹s right after the bios mem check (right after it says verifying dmi pool something rather) and then the monitor stops receiving a signal and the mouse gets no power too. But the fans, leds and all that are going as per above.
Before this, about a week ago, I had a similar failure but it just worked after a number of attempts at rebooting, (so I've never shut down my computer after that, but then again I hardly do to begin with) but now nothing. One of the more 'successful' attempts at rebooting that I had got all the way to the login screen, but then the monitor and mouse just went off in the middle of logging in. At this stage the login tune was also abruptly stopped, so that probably means it's not just my graphics card. What's weird about it is that all the fans are going, hard drives seem to be vibrating and the leds on my gpu heatsink are still lighting up...
Have also at one stage managed to get into my bios, but then it just stopped as per above (fans and all that going, busy led on, but no signal to monitor, no power to mouse etc), and at other times I can tweak around in the bios till my heart's content.
The only new hardware I have installed is the Razer Copperhead mouse and it's got the latest firmware and drivers. Other than that, just the regular windows updates. Have tried resetting the BIOS settings as well but that doesn't seem to help.
Have also taken everything apart and left only the necessary components in and tried to boot that way but same thing, have also tried booting with the mouse unplugged just incase it was that (but have been using it for 2-3weeks fine now).
Would really like a resolution to this, as at the moment I lack funds to replace the motherboard (am saving up for a upgrade to socket 939+pci-e and I have nowhere near that amount of cash yet)
Any ideas greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.