Broken Motherboard

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ilikelmo25

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In 2004 I built a new computer made from an Asus P4SP-MX motherboard. It was a reliable computer in 2005 when it was most used until it suddenly stopped working. When the power button is pressed, you can hear all the fans whirring and the hard drive power up, but no signal is brought to the display, the floppy drive light is always on and doesn't turn off and you can't hear the hard drive ticking like you normally can when Windows is loading. Basically, it sounds like it's not doing anything at all. Also, the computer appears to shut itself down after 30 seconds of being idle as described above.

Any suggestions to why this may be, I've tried two different PSUs and two difference CPUs.
 
Try replacing the battery on the board? If the battery went that will stall the works right away since that maintains the cmos information stored. The worst would be something like a bad cap on the board itself where the board would have to be replaced. The usual battery is the 2032 CL 2032 for Duracell, CR 2032 for Energizer not 2031 as seen right next to those at stores in the watch/calcular/digital camera or simply battery section.
 
Well at least you made the low cost effort to see if the board was at fault. The shutdown in so many seconds is the thing that points to the board there. If it was simply a lack of display while everything else seemed to run normally a bad video card or onboard vpu chip would be the next item.
 
It stinks I know from seeing a new board quit in 3 days and helping a friend out when he was getting doa boards in. Something there simply said "time to replace me" and then retired!
 
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