pc not working

hi guys,

ok here is what i can tell you.

i was playing wow ( world of warcraft ) turned the game off, turned to talk to wife, turned back to moniter and it was blank . at first i thought id turned it off n forgot but when i looked the lights was still on and i could hear the normal sounds of a running pc. so i rebooted by pressing the restart button, all the normal sounds apart the the beep started.
anyways it still ding have anything on my monitor , so i changed monitors to 1 i know is working, and nothing came on that one. so i opened up case cleaned it all out checking all the cables n things was in properly ( they was ) removed thegraphics card and put monitor in the onboard slot. turned pc on again, still nothing.
its an novatech pc with foxcon motherboard,with win xp pro ( legal copy ) 500g hd 2g ddr ram ( no idea if its ddr 1,2 or 3 )
would anyone beable to help me out on what eles i could do to figger out the problem ??? all the lights are on the hd is running and the fans are running.

 

To get the onboard video to work you'd have to check in BIOS as you might have to enable it. Other than that, it sure sounds like a blown video card though I'd expect it to go when it was being used the most heavily.:confused Can you try a different card?

 

ill let you know the out come of that, not sure if i have a spare.

 

Like augie said, it reads like the GPU has given up the ghost - happened to me when I was just browsing a couple of weeks ago.

 

as im not a pro with pc's can you tell me how i get in to the bios / cosmos to check the onboard card is turned on ? and also explane how it will show on the screen if the graphics cards are not working ?

 

ok guys here is another thing i just tryed , i took out the ram , turned pc on, now if im right it should of been beeping like mad to warn me there is no ram. well it dint make any sound at all. im starting to thing its my motherboard.

any simply checks i do to see if it is the MB ??

 

Many PC's will enter the BIOS if the Del key is pressed repeatedly at boot up.

EDIT: No easy checks to rule out or in, the motherboard, many symptoms are very similar to those of a failed CPU or a bad power supply.

 

ok ive come across another problem lol , the keyboard is not working, or atleast i dont think it is ..cos when i click on the caps and number locks the lights dont come on

 

Ah, so it's a USB keyboard then? They typically don't work until windows loads, unless the BIOS has been specifically set to enable them at boot

Do you have, or could you borrow, a PS/2 keyboard (small circular connector, usually fits at the top of the case, just under the power supply)?

 

ya just done that and still no litghts on caps number locks

 

You DO have the RAM refitted?

 

ya the ram is in

 

I had to ask ...

I'll bow out of this for a while to have a rethink of it all and grab my second java of the day. Maybe someone else will chip in with an easy method of working out where this problem lies.

 

new question..

going to get a new motherboard, but will All the things on my old one fit the new ones ? i have 2 1g ddr2 ram sticks a gforce 8500 card and not forgetting the harddrive and the 350w max power supply.