Did mobo die?

[somepoolhustler]

I am running an ultra x4 in an antec 1050 with an asus p6x58d motherboard. I turned on the computer and it ran fine, a few min later it suddenly shut off. I turned on the power button and the computer began running with all fans at max power, but nothing displayed on the monitor. It simply kept running max fans but nothing was happening. Reset button did not work so I manually shut down by holding the power button down. Upon an attempt to restart the computer nothing happened, pushing the power button wont do anything at all. There are 2 lights on the mother board that light up, the "power button" and "reset" button still glow when the power is on but the computer doesnt start up. I switched out the power supply to see if that was the problem but nothing still happens except those 2 lights lighting up. Could the motherboard possibly be fried?

Thanks for any help!

 

[jack_attack]

Sounds like it's gone. Have you tried reseating everything?

 

[jsc]

Our standard checklist and troubleshooting thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/261145-31-read-posting-boot-problems

Work completely through the list. You have a head start in that you know your system worked once - as opposed to a new build.

Does your system have a case speaker either on the motherboard or installed in the case. If not, you really need one now. If you case or motherboard didn't come with a system speaker you can buy one here:
http://www.cwc-group.com/casp.html

PSU testing - was the PSU you swapped of similar capacity to the original one in the system? See if you can test your PSU in another working system. If you cannot do that, try to borrow a DMM to measure the voltages. Yellow wires should be 12 volts, red wires: +5 volts, orange wires: +3.3 volts, blue wire: -12 volts, violet wire: 5 volts always on. The gray wire is really important. It should go from 0 to +5 volts when you turn the PSU on. CPU needs this to boot. All values should be plus/minus 5%.

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

I've started salvaging speakers from ancient unusable cases. It amazes me sometimes when a motherboard comes in a retail box and doesn't have a speaker with it, but has a place to plug one in. And then a case comes in a retail box and doesn't have a speaker with it. Then if you talk to the motherboard people they say that the case is supposed to come with one, and if you talk to the case people the motherboard is supposed to have one built in. (Which I have seen a very few times, mostly on boards 5+ years old)

 

[somepoolhustler]

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