mobo fried?

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lightninglarry

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ok went on vacation for about a week. Came home and The computer was off. Now the computer basically stays on so it appears. The blue LED lights/fans on the front and back stay on, the dvd burner, dvd rom drive both open, the only way everything shuts off is if i flip the power supply switch off. All i see is a black screen when the system is on. the PC Activity button on my modem is on, so the system is on. How can i tell if my moboard is fried? any guides or troubleshooting tests? Again i cant turn my computer off....even when holding the power button for a long time, only way i can get it to completely shut off is flipping the power supply switch in the back. Monitor is working fine as i just put my old cpu that im typing on now to post this with the monitor. All my lights are on, monitor is on, but i dont see anything.

video card? moboard problems?

i wish i had a usb type keyboard/mouse that way i can tell if the moboard is reading either one but not the case

one suggestion i got was to replace the moboard and see if that was the problem, didnt want to tell the guy he was a douche on a diff forum but i figure thats my last course of action :rolleyes:

thanks for any help.
 
chrisalviola said:
yup maybe the board is dead, try looking inside your CPU and tighten up the connections first.
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everything appears to be connected correctly. I was told while i was on vacation that it rained/stormed about 4 of the days i was gone, was gone a week. Surge protector not do its job ya think?
 
one time something simular happened cause my hard drive got to hot it would just show a black screen nothing i mean nothing else, anotherthing you should try is taking out your ram and see if it makes a beeping noise just to see if it gives a clue, when i had my hp i broke the ram it would only show black screen and not even beep only when i took it out, if its not your mobo or cpu you should take a look at your ram, it is kinda funny how ur pc wont shut off from holdong the on/pff switch
 
Take the whole mobo out of the case as well as the psu, hdds, optical drives, RAM, HSF, CPU, ect ect. set nit on a bench, dry it, and reconnect everything. If a surge happened wouldnt it have gone though the surge protector, then to the PSU, where it would have blown itself up to save the system (thats what Ive read). Anyways, if the PSU did really blow itself up, then that might be a problem. If there was a surge the monitor might be fried too. No beeps whatso ever? I am looking into "overheating" or "shorting"...
 
im using the same monitor now so its not the monitor....as for it getting to hot.......possible. I turned the AC off since i wasnt going to be home for a week. The computer is dry, no possible way for it have gotten wet. Going to try the beep/taking ram out. If i take the ram out, and get no beeps?
 
ok and update on my situation. I took it to my friends house. I dont know exactly what we did, but i did remember 2 things, one probably making it work. We did take the ram out...and the other thing we did was he removed the cmos battery for like 10 minutes. He was googling a bunch of troubleshooting stuff. It worked, so i took him home. Upon the initial boot i got the same grey screen....STARTED TO GET IRRITATED, but then like 15 seconds into the boot, it like started up, grey screen went to the normal black bios loading screen. Find that odd, but had my cpu working thankfully....3-4 days running smooth.. Come home last night and yet again the power had gone off(not sure i told u that in the first post) But same thing again, lights were on/had the grey screen on the monitor.
So im on a different monitor now but its not a monitor problem. The new monitor i have has the power feature, where it sleeps if no computer is running or whatever. But my fans/lights and everything is on, but it goes to sleep still. And again only way to shut my system off is to flip the power switch in the back.
Did removing the cmos battery make it work? I dont want to screw it up that bad, so can anyone give me and easy way to take it out...does it snap out? Or was just that a fluke and not the real reason, why my system started to work again.
 
actually my friend had this problem, one out of every three tries, taking out the cmos battery would boot his computer... turns out his BIOS was fried...
 
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