Well, I'm......

.....out of commission as of about 5 AM this morning. My posts are no longer shiney.:cry:cry:cry
No post on my rig after it shut down unexpectedly.
Took everything off except for 1 stick of RAM and 1 vid card and still no post.
Mobo reset and power buttons don't work.
Fans and H50 cooler power up but nothing else. Before unhooking hard drives and optical drives, their lights stayed on continuously.

THIS SUCKS MAJORLY. (Had to use caps cause what i want to say right now would get me banned for life.)

If anyone has any other suggestions, I'm open to them.
I have no components to switch out to try anything else. This is the newest rig in the house.

 

OUCH!:cry Try turning the PSU off, hit the BIOS reset switch for the required time after all lights are off and try to re-start. Repeat several times. Did you at least get a BSOD?

 

No BSOD, just complete shutdown and I'm behind a good sized UPS and have been for quite awhile.
No joy on the reset with power off. Did that several times. Mobo power button will turn it on but won't turn it off. Have to use PSU switch.

(Imagine Yosemite Sam on a 5 minute carn sarn sassasfras and that's my feelings right now.)

It's an ASUS P6T Ver 1. I'll see if there have been any issues with that board but I haven't had a minute's trouble out of it since new.

 

Plug your PSU straight into the wall. If the PSU doesn't stink then I'd try it in your old machine to eliminate it. Other than that it's RMA time unless you want to go to a shop and have it diagnosed. They have those PCI cards that can check out dead machines though I'm not sure how good they are. A real tech will have to answer that one. Also, this thread should be moved to hardware for more eyes.

 

Sorry to hear you are having problems Ibmest but i can understand those bad words you want to use because i have already used them here at home, i have had two really bad days with the PC not booting and loosing MBR amongst other things.

 

Well, I went to ASUS website and went through their troubleshooter for mobos. No joy at that either.
Took everything off mobo and disconnected power leads and reconnected and still get no post beeps at all, not even to indicate no RAM installed.
Tried plugging into wall outlet and no change.
I'm not going to go the shop route, so I guess it's time to go the RMA route at Newegg. We'll see how that goes.

 

I think I know what you're talking about, Augie. The diagnostic cards are indeed handy if you have power actually running through your mainboard. If it's a dead mobo though, there won't be any power available to power the diagnostic card, either. (I do own the card/s in question). Of course, they assume that at least some voltage is getting to the PCI slot.
If tried a different P.S.U., only vid card and RAM and still a blank screen and no POST, usually it's either C.P.U., BIOS or something blown on the mainboard. Substitution will rule out which.
At any rate, trying RMA may be your Saviour.

 

I know power is getting to the board, fans spin up and stay up, Corsair H50 CPU cooler spins up and top light on case turns on. Before I pulled them, both optical drive lights came on but stayed on. No BIOS beeps of any kind whatever the configuration, components in or out.
There have been no indications previously of any problems and the PSU is a PCP&P Turbo Cool 860. They are pretty rock solid when it comes to power supplies. No smells or sounds and the PSU fan is working.
Comp regularly gets blown out with compressor air (no oil added) with components being removed and blown out indidually.
I could only try the wife's power supply but that is used for work at home and it does not have the additional plug for the CPU power. She'd shoot me if I tried to do that so no real way to switch out different components. All other comps are too old - 10 year or better range or laptops.

 

I second the move of this thread to the hardware forum section!

As to the use of another power source I would suggest using this from newegg.com on the cheap.(my review on page) or something similar to power up your computer.

This power source is now two years old still running 24/7 folding,but have since relocated the power source to a socket 939 SLI (Nvidia 8800GS series gpu cards 384 DDR3) AMD x2 64 4200+ 1024 DDR2 on board.

Odd how your system just up and stopped responding? :confused

 

I had done an Win7 update reboot about 15 minutes beforehand but had time enough to get the 3 folding clients back to folding, monitor CPU% and surf a little bit and then Whammo shutdown with no warning.
Did try to boot from motherboard DVD to try to repair BIOS but no joy there either. Just doesn't get there to read it.

 

Well, here's an update.
Finally heard back from ASUS on Thursday on RMA request after 4 days waiting.
Just shipped my mobo back to them so they can try it out and see what's going on.
Expected delivery date - Oct 4
ASUS - 10 business day window to handle RMAs
Ground ship back to me - Add a week at least
Total - 4 weeks:cry (and already been down a week)

Have to see if the wife will let me go for another mobo even though it means a clean install of everything. I'm sure that will fly over real big.rolleyes

:crap I've got comp parts all over my room and desk now. (Maybe I can sell the neatness idea for good measure on another mobo.:-D)

 

Jeez man, that obviously royally sucks!*sigh* I hope it is the mobo at fault.

 

My posts are shiny again!:major:major:major:major

Got a new mobo back from ASUS and am in the process of configuring stuff but I do have the CPU and 1 GPU back in action.
Good gracious it's nice to get back to a quad. A 1.4 AMD Thunderbird single core just does not cut it anymore.

 

Good to hear man! That must have been a rough patch to go through!:eek Cool that you kept your T-bird around and stayed online. I've got my X2 for that.

 

hooray!!! :major

fold on