No Monitor Signal, No Beeps, No Nothing

[odie1941]

Folks,

Any help will be greatly appreciated.

(Yes she's old - getting married in 5 weeks - cannot spend a dime for an SLI rebuild just yet, lol)

Asus P4C800E Deluxe
3.2 HT Intel
ATI 1600X 512
1.5 Kingston Dual RAM
2 80 GB Maxtor HD's
Samsung CD Rom

MY computer started acting funny and random for the past few months - upon startup - monitor occasionally would not get a signal, after retrying 2-5 times - it usually kicked on. And then one day - after a freeze and hard reboot - it never came back. When I started up - everything seemed and sounded fine, optical mouse would light up, keyboard, etc (I use the PS2 connections) - except no monitor signal.

I upgraded my power supply too 500Watt (was formerly 350), thinking I was at the minimum - again all worked fine for the past year until a few months back) - same issue, except I now dont even get a signal to my mouse and keyboard, along with no monitor signal.

Tested the following:
Vid Card, swapped out 2 known working ones to no avail.
Swapped out to a P4P800E mobo, rebuilt - same issue.
Replaced all HDD, CD, Floppy cables
Replaced floppy / CD (extra hardware, all known to work)
Tested the monitor with laptop - works just fine

I am at a lost. About to try: incremental RAM slots, Hard drives..

I have spent a good 2 days with this and due to upcoming wedding MUST GET GAMING IN...

Thanks in advance for any solutions.

Cheers,
Odie1941

 

[kyeana]

Start with just taking everything out except for 1 stick of ram, the cpu, and video card (if there ins't an onboard video card). Make sure the 20/24 pin and the 4/8 pin connector are both plugged in.

If it does start up with a new mobo, then you will have to do a clean install of windows (or a repair install, but those can get messy, easier to just do a clean one)

Hope this helps and congratulations on getting married!

 

[kagerou]

Most likely it's the RAM.

 

[odie1941]

Thanks folks - I just added another kink to the process - had a 125v plug in my new 500w power supply instead of the 250v plug that came with it... lovely snap, crackle and pop...

Off to MicroCenter for a new one - hope to get a "swap"...