Wierd problem

[kgeissler 0]

Ok....yesterday the fan on my Geforce card was making a grinding noise. I took the card out, removed the fan, cleaned it up a bit, put the fan back on and reinstalled the card.

 

When I went to turn the computer back on, the hard drive lights and the CD-ROM drive came on and never shut back off. The monitor will turn on briefly then shuts off and displays the message "DPMS Mode Off". The computer never boots

 

I took the Geforce card out, threw it in another computer and it worked fine.

 

I put a PCI video card in my "bad" computer and the same thing happened.

 

Do you think I fried the motherboard?

 

I am getting a new mb/cpu today, but I did want to sell the current CPU and motherboard.

 

Any ideas?

[AndyFair 0]

You might want to check the RAM before you start blaming anything else; some motherboards won't boot if there is a seriously faulty stick of RAM onboard.

 

I would suggest removing all the RAM, then try one stick at a time, if it boots, then you know where the problem lies.

 

I had this problem once, it took me all weekend swapping out cards, hard drives, processors, fans and everything else, before I checked the RAM (needless to say, that was the last thing I checked!).

 

Hope this helps

AndyF

[pbuckne 0]

I would be tempted to remove everything attached to the motherboard (even the floppy drive, harddrive, and cdrom cables) until only the video card remains (that pci might be a good choice). I have seen once or twice where a BIOS had reset to default. Once I had removed everything, it came back up to the "splash screen", and I began adding items one by one, until all was well again. Hope it helps.