Need help?? Simple question!!

cowboi123

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What are the symptoms of a broken motherboard or cpu? Just a couple hours before, i just off my computer by pulling the plug and now, it wont work (the screens blank (standby)). Even the starting BIOS screen wont appear, the monitor just stays in standby.
 

Zorg

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That's certainly a symptom of something going wrong, aye?

Do you get fans or anything? If so then manually reset the BIOS, as per the manual, and see if that helps. Usually it involves shorting "cmos clear" pins on the mobo for 5-10 sec.
 

cowboi123

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zorg, thanks for your help. Strangely, the problem was that i connected my mouse to the keyboard ps/2 jack and the keyboard to the mouse ps/2 jack. That was the issue that caused my computer not to boot. lol. Thanks anyway!!!