I'm hoping someone might have some thoughts on what to do. My system wont boot. I hit the power button, and then the PSU, CPU, chipset, and case fans spin up, but a second after spinning up the fans stop and the boot ends. The led power light on the motherboard stays illuminated the whole time. If I unplug the PSU or turn the power switch off and then back on then I can press the power button and get the same brief spin up. If I hold down the power button for 10 seconds and then press the power button it will then perform this brief spin up. If I dont do any of these things I can keep pressing the power button and nothing happens.
I've unplugged all the drives and nothing changes. I pulled the CMOS batter and verified good amps from it.
Prior to this boot issue I had some problems with a new (Feb 2008) WD Caviar drive I was using to store media (not the OS drive). Windows reported it as having too many disk errors so it dropped it from Sata 3.0 to 1.5. Also it had a few NTFS errors that required running checkdisk. And I had some BSODs. After one crash on restart BIOS reported a SMART error. I ran WDs drive tools on the drive and it reported no errors with the drive and the drive worked fine after that error. Also, my system disk access on both OS and media drive have seemed to degraded recently.
This is alot of info but I'm hoping it might be of help in diagnosing the problem. My thoughts are motherboard or PSU. I think I should get a new PSU and see if that works. If that doesn't work I figured I'd replace the motherboard. But I found out that socket 939 is dead. That being the case if it is not the PSU I'd build a new PC but have also considered at the same time fixing this PC as a backup (I'm really hurting business wise not having my PC). I dont want to spend alot money if I have to fix this rig and dont need sizzling performance. Any recommendations on a new, relatively inexpensive MOBO, CPU, and memory setup to replace my existing components? Again, I'd also be building a new PC for higher performance but I would want decent performance. And I should add I'm not a gamer. I'm a programmer using my PC to run lots of apps, programming and graphic design software .
Thanks for any thoughts!
System:
Purchased 8/2005
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700
Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe 939
PSU: ENERMAX EG565AX-VEFMA2.0-SLI 535W
Memory: CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
HD: WD Raptor
I've unplugged all the drives and nothing changes. I pulled the CMOS batter and verified good amps from it.
Prior to this boot issue I had some problems with a new (Feb 2008) WD Caviar drive I was using to store media (not the OS drive). Windows reported it as having too many disk errors so it dropped it from Sata 3.0 to 1.5. Also it had a few NTFS errors that required running checkdisk. And I had some BSODs. After one crash on restart BIOS reported a SMART error. I ran WDs drive tools on the drive and it reported no errors with the drive and the drive worked fine after that error. Also, my system disk access on both OS and media drive have seemed to degraded recently.
This is alot of info but I'm hoping it might be of help in diagnosing the problem. My thoughts are motherboard or PSU. I think I should get a new PSU and see if that works. If that doesn't work I figured I'd replace the motherboard. But I found out that socket 939 is dead. That being the case if it is not the PSU I'd build a new PC but have also considered at the same time fixing this PC as a backup (I'm really hurting business wise not having my PC). I dont want to spend alot money if I have to fix this rig and dont need sizzling performance. Any recommendations on a new, relatively inexpensive MOBO, CPU, and memory setup to replace my existing components? Again, I'd also be building a new PC for higher performance but I would want decent performance. And I should add I'm not a gamer. I'm a programmer using my PC to run lots of apps, programming and graphic design software .
Thanks for any thoughts!
System:
Purchased 8/2005
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 3700
Mobo: ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe 939
PSU: ENERMAX EG565AX-VEFMA2.0-SLI 535W
Memory: CORSAIR XMS 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200)
HD: WD Raptor