Was playin Battlefield 2 the other day, computer froze, couldn't Ctrl+Alt+Del, so I held the computer Power button in to shut down (like it normally should when I hold the power button in). But instead of shutting down, the computer went into a hibernation-like state -- everything "shut down" except for the LED lights, i.e. mouse, keyboard, cd/dvd drive, LAN, computer LED. Also, the computer's blue LED light just blinks/blinked continuously in this "dead" state. SO I unplugged the power cord from the plug outlet, but the computer's LED light STILL continued to blink! It took 2 full minutes with the cord unplugged from the outlet for all the LED lights to FINALLY turn off! Upon starting the computer back up, it wouldn't. The only thing that powers "on" are all my component LED lights and the case fan. I opened the case to find that no power is going to my hard drives. The CPU fan spins for about 10 seconds and then stops. The case fan spins normal. It shows nothing on my monitor, no logo screen, no BIOS, no output from my video card, NOTHING. In a vain attempt to try and fix this dillema, I switched the power supply thinking it was that, but it wasn't. My spare power supply unit (with the same wattage) saw the same problem. I'm guessing my system got hit with a power spike/power surge or whatever you call it and the motherboard is cooked(?). No thunder storm when this happened though. My only question at this point is, should I buy a new computer, or replace the motherboard? I ask if I should buy a new computer because, doesn't everything that's connected to the motherboard get damaged/fried as well, during a power spike/surge? I do not overclock and the computer is about 1 1/2 years old. The motherboard is an MSI K8NGM2-L.
Motherboard fried(?)
- Thread starter Nemesis99
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Yes. I stripped the system down to just one hard drive, one stick of RAM (in a different slot), took that one out and tried another stick, Took the network card out, sound card out, video card out, connected the monitor to the integrated motherboard graphics. Nothing works.
elitehacker
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Well to find out if your other components work you can put them into a working system. That way you will know for sure if your other components are faulty or not.