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Originally Posted by drk
Are you sure the power supply is bad? I just purchased it a month ago and everything lights up when I turn the system on. I also tried resetting the CMOS and it did not change anything in the boot sequence, still 'no signal'.
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About as sure as I can get without seeing it. I see that on a disturbingly regular basis, sometimes right out of the box. There are 12v and 5v rails. One can pop, the other one stay working so that the lights come on yet noone's home.
The other possibilities are a blown processor. RAM or other issues it would beep. A cooked BIOS can do that, as well as a blown chip on the board. I saw one of those the other day too. It's currently sitting in my office with a big hole in one of the ICs.
Here are some other possibilities I've seen. Add-in cards that would prevent the computer from posting. Bad caps. A dead optical drive. Stuff like that. All you have to do is unplug everything but processor, RAM and video. See if it posts. Take it from there. I'm still betting on PSU though.