Computer doesn't start.

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Alimoose

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I came home today, wanting to go on the computer like always and when I turned it on, I sat there waiting a decade for it to turn on. I noticed it just sat there with a blank screen doing nothing. My LED lights, fans, everything is on, but it didn't even load to uhh is it called the bios? cmos?, whatever the loading part is for the motherboard.

Anyone know the problem?
 
Offhand no one will have an instant answer. The idea now is to find out what the actual problem is. Did you hear any audio beeps like one long and two short. That would generally point at a bad video card while sometimes the alert may not be heard. If you are hearing the typical startup sounds that would be the first item to consider.

If the cmos gets cleared you will see the first bios setup sscreen where setting the time and date is then needed again. For a dead battery on the board itself nothing generally starts up while there is still plenty of power. The board simply won't switch on.
 
ah, I forgot to say that i switched video cards just to see if it was the video card's problem and it wasn't.

No I didn't hear any audio beeps or anything, except my hdd turning on and fans.

Maybe my motherboard died?

It worked perfectly yesterday. Maybe it was because I had my windows wide open last night because the AC is broken at my house and it gets extremely hot when there is no AC (Florida). Maybe moisture was inside my computer and killed my motherboard?
 
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ah, I forgot to say that i switched video cards just to see if it was the video card's problem and it wasn't.

No I didn't hear any audio beeps or anything, except my hdd turning on and fans.

Maybe my motherboard died?

It worked perfectly yesterday. Maybe it was because I had my windows wide open last night because the AC is broken at my house and it gets extremely hot when there is no AC (Florida). Maybe moisture was inside my computer and killed my motherboard?
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I doubt it's the moisture.. Unless there was alot of moisture and you left your case open by the window...

As in overheating, maybe. Newer computers tend to shut themselves off to prevent overheating. As in how old your computer, I cannot tell unless I have the specs.
 
It wouldn't be much over a year since that is an AM2 model board according to the sig. Early last year the focus was more on 939 boards for an AMD system. If the second card still saw nothing on the display you have the board to look at there. It could be a bad slot on the board due to a cold solder problem now apparent or something simply let go.

With a card known to be good tested the lack of hearing the beep code for the first card is no surprise. This now points at the board seeing the fault there.
 
I have no idea why my motherboard would just die on me for no apparent reason.

Maybe because my house WAS FREAKIN 100 DEGREES!! %@%!&^@*)!&^
or maybe it was just a crappy motherboard to begin with. (Gigabyte S4 SLI Series)
 
Alimoose said:
I have no idea why my motherboard would just die on me for no apparent reason.

Maybe because my house WAS FREAKIN 100 DEGREES!! %@%!&^@*)!&^
or maybe it was just a crappy motherboard to begin with. (Gigabyte S4 SLI Series)
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Gigabyte is an great company. And CPU's run hotter than that...
 
Gogabyte is right up there along with Asus, MSI, DFI, Abit, and a few other makes. But on the new build here the brand new board quit after 3 days of use. So far the replacement board is running strong. Laet year a friend received 3 bad boards in a row and then selected a different model by the same make to see positive results. Occsasionally a few bad or weak board do get out and simply have to be replaced.
 
The make and model isn't the usual problem where a board goes bad. My friend's 939 build then had a better A8N SLI Premium over the A8N SLI model I ran when 3 of those failed to see anything when they went into that new build. Bad caps or a bios chip is the usual explaination. Look over the board there for any discoloration or leaking caps. If you just bought it rma it for an exchange or different model.
 
I know what you mean, I just got unlucky and had a bad mobo.

Well I got my AC fixed today and when I came home from school today I wanted to see if my computer worked...and it did O_o...Maybe the heat when my AC was broken overheated my computer?
 
If your board did overheat and kick in the protection circuit made for overheat protection that would have simply shut everything down until the board had sufficiently cooled like the next morning to give an example. Have you monitored the cpu, board, and other temps at all? Even on a good hot summer day the one thing that will most often see a system overheat is the lack of cooling for the system itself.

When first installing the board in the last build here that was to go into the old Socket A's case at the time for a the upgrade. The case had two 80mm rear and top fans but nothing in the front or side there. That means no vents as well as no front or side intake fans. The board saw 46-48C just sitting idle. The decision made right there upon seeing that was a simple change of cases with the new one having a 140mm front and a 120mm rear exhaust fan along with two 120s on the side. Try 31C idle there! A large drop of some 17C immediately.
 
My board idles at 30-40C occasionally(when the ac is working lol), with only 80mm on the side, rear, cpu, and uhh the fan on my PSU.
 
Anything below 40C is well within the normal operating temps while not being ideal. Newer boards over the old P3 and Socket A even 754 boards have a wider power distribution and tend to run warmer with the newer dual core cpus by both Intel and AMD.

Being in an area where the average daily temps can be quite warm adding an extra fan if possible or going for a new case that sees larger fans especially a good 120 front intake or simply having vents just to see cooler air drawn in will be the big help in brining those down.

With the Antec 900 model case here for the new build and of course ac running on a warm day the board is presently at 26C with the cpu seeing 21C. That's an improvement still over the 939 build mentioned before. But the 900 wasn't seen at the time the Aero Cool model was. That was first seen for twice the price a few months later and fortunately caught onsale in time here for the new AM2 build in use.

The one thing to add here is that some boards seen an option in the bios to set the shutdown temp higher then the default. This would be seen in the bios if that make and model board has options for this. Older boards often saw a menu of temps to select from while the newer board offer a temp range for this when available.
 
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