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griffin troy · July 11th, 2008, 04:07 PM

Ok cpu and cpu fan is on the mobo, one stick of ram, 500wat power suply. mobo is not in the case but sitting on the box it came in. have tried three different video cards, pc will not even load up bios. I have tried two different mobo. mobo's are shuttle and a pc chip one socket a 462 boards. been using same shuttle board for prob 4 or 5 years with no prob. last year dang thing started giveing me the blue screen of death. and then once and a while would not even start up at all. i have tried two different power supplys and cpu's amd 1800xp and a 2200. if someone could help that would be so great at least maybe someplace to start. thanks

etnietering · July 16th, 2008, 10:27 AM

It could be the RAM. Does it give any error messages or beep codes or anything when it boots up?

griffin troy · July 17th, 2008, 12:54 AM

no i get nothing at all. Bios nothing at all. I could see on one mobo not getting the bios or anything, but two. The first board i did notice some things looking out of wack. THe capacitors i think i read someone calling them. A couple of the tops of them were bubled out. See here is the thing, would you get the bios to load on a mobo if the cpu is bad. I am thinking that maybe my first cpu was going bad, and the one I bought off ebay for 3 bucks was bad too. that would make since for the second mobo not working. DOes that make since too you as well. If so i will just try another cpu and go from their. thanks for the input.

#43 fan · July 17th, 2008, 12:58 AM

The caps would be bad on the mobo.
It could be a bad CPU, also try a different Power Supply.

etnietering · July 17th, 2008, 01:01 AM

I believe a BIOS will load up with a bad/dead/gone CPU, but it will not load without any memory. Also, it won't load without power, so if the caps are dead then it wouldn't load up either.

griffin troy · July 17th, 2008, 11:47 AM

I have tried two different power supply's and three different sticks of ram. When i power up with either power supply the fans kick on and all that. Also I am haveing the same prob with another motherboard. One that i had tried to work with a few years back. It worked and all i just decided to go back to the original mobo for some reasone. I tried all three sticks of ram one at a time in slot one for the ram. and also tried all three in at same times in different positions. thanks again.