HELP: PC not booting.

CodeMaster

CodeMaster

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As some of you might know, I have built 3 new systems for work. My PC was working fine yesterday, but when I came in this morning the power LED was blinking to show that it was sleeping. Great, move the mouse - nothing, press escape - nothing... Nothing would bring it out of hibernation.
Hold in power switch, wait 20 secs, then try power on - nothing.

OK, so I opened the case, and when I power up, the CPU & PSU fans spin up for about a second, then nothing... no beeps, no POST, nothing. ASUS MB LED is a constant blue.

This is what I have done so far, removed everything except CPU, still nothing... not even beeps. Also tried clearing CMOS, with no success.

Any suggestions of what to try? I am thinking it is possibly a faulty PSU. I have it unplugged at the moment with no battery to make sure that CMOS is cleared, then I will take a PSU out the other PC to try.

Specs
ASUS P5B Deluxe Motherboard
Intel E6600 @ stock
2x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR2800 RAM
ASUS 7600GS GPU
80GB SATA2 Hardrive
 
I have the same problem with my Dad's PC. Everything seems to start up fine. I get the bios screen, but no further. It wont even let me into the bios. I have also tried another PSU, but to no avail. Any help would be appreciated.
 
Sounds like a dead board CodeMaster. Sometimes you just hit a bad batch, and every replacement you get of the same model does the same (like the board i got from Rectron, replaced 5 times, soon to be 6th). Often removing the battery doesnt help much, try replacing the battery and shorting the pins allocated to clearing the CMOS.

DjStyles, did the system suddenly stop booting? Does the hard drive start up? If it does, try changing the PATA/SATA cable and the interface the cable connects to on the motherboard. If that doesnt work, try changing hard drives, and removing any additional expansion cards.
 
UPDATE. It was a faulty PSU. I took one from another PC, an voila... All OK.
Now I just got to get Sybaritic to swop it out ASAP.
 
Hope they give it you on the house. Local suppliers are full of it. They just dont care if you look like a fool infront of clients, or suffer losses from down time :mad:
 
Graeme (Sybaritic) said I should just get it to him, and it would most probably just be swopped out. Should have a new one by Friday.
 
Cadavre777 said:
Hope they give it you on the house. Local suppliers are full of it. They just dont care if you look like a fool infront of clients, or suffer losses from down time :mad:
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I should hope so... the friggin' thing is only about 3 weeks old. Maybe I shouldn't have skimped on the PSU, it's a Codegen 400W Dual-Rail
 
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