PC not booting up.

budwieser · 31-08-2010, 20:03

Hi all. I`ve got this problem with the PC not booting.
It`s an ASUS P5N32-E SLI board with 2 gig of crucial Ballistix ram,Q6600 quad core cpu, 74 gig wd raptor c:/ drive, spinpoint 1 tb d:/ 2 x samsung 22x dvd re writers, ASUS 8800 gts 320 graphics..
This has been going on for quite a while now, the pc boots but the monitor light stays flashing amber, everything lights up and spins, the hard drives spin up as well. I`ve tried a new Mobo and it was the same. The psu is a Hiper 580, brand new 5 months ago.
Could it be a combination of things going tits up does anyone think.
I tried my sis in laws gpu last time and it booted. I thought it might be the pci-e slots being re-initionalised. does that sound feasable?
This has got me stumped. Can`t even get into the bios.
Thanks for any suggestions.

LSainsbury · 31-08-2010, 20:34

Is there a CMOS reset on the board?

budwieser · 31-08-2010, 20:56

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Originally Posted by LSainsbury

Is there a CMOS reset on the board?

Done that mate and changed the cmos battery in case it was that.

Everything spins up but no signal on the screen.
Like i said, this has been ongoing for about six months now. Sometimes it boots, sometimes not.

Everything unplugged except graphics but still no joy. I`ll have to try to put my gpu into another pc and see what happens. Cheers anyway.

Paul · 31-08-2010, 21:09

Any beeps or does it just sit there dead no matter what you take out of the mobo?

budwieser · 31-08-2010, 21:18

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Originally Posted by Paul

Any beeps or does it just sit there dead no matter what you take out of the mobo?

Haven`t got an onboard speaker so i can`t tell Paul.
It all boots as it should but nothing on the screen, everything lights up and the hard drives spin up.
I`m thinking maybe the cpu is buggered.

Jimmy-J · 31-08-2010, 23:29

Looks like this guy had a similar problem with the same board... Link

**Graham M** · 31-08-2010, 23:37

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Originally Posted by budwieser

Haven`t got an onboard speaker so i can`t tell Paul.
It all boots as it should but nothing on the screen, everything lights up and the hard drives spin up.
I`m thinking maybe the cpu is buggered.

Does it look like it's getting so far as booting windows?

royaltiger · 01-09-2010, 11:36

I would try another graphics card

budwieser · 01-09-2010, 21:47

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Originally Posted by Graham M

Does it look like it's getting so far as booting windows?

Err....As above nothing on the screen.
No bios Screen or anything.

LSainsbury · 02-09-2010, 06:49

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Originally Posted by Product 13

Looks like this guy had a similar problem with the same board... Link

As per this link, I plugged in a FDD cable the wrong way round once and it stopped the machine from POST'ing..

Have you tried a bare minimum spec and removed all drives?

Paul · 02-09-2010, 07:24

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Originally Posted by budwieser

Err....As above nothing on the screen.
No bios Screen or anything.

Doesn't mean it's not booting, my manager at work asked me to look at a Dell recently doing this, GFX board is fine but the slot it's in is knackered. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it's not booting. When you power up do you get Hard Disk activity at all or does it just sit there with nothing spinning up?

DaiNasty · 02-09-2010, 08:46

I'm wondering if that Hiper is faulty and not producing enough power for the gpu. Was you sister's card an older lower-power model?

candy1567 · 02-09-2010, 09:00

Hi

I just recently as in yesterday had this problem, pc not booting up, but hard drive, cpu fans, case fans etc all working but blank screen on monitor with the amber light flashing on it.

i put in an external graphics card, still no joy, so i reseated the memory sticks, and hey presto guess wat, it booted.

Hope this may help

Juliex

Jimmy-J · 02-09-2010, 09:41

I've just remembered a similar problem I had some years back. it had me totally baffled. Until I lifted the heat sync from the processor and discovered that the thermal paste had dried out, obviously this caused the pc not to boot due to the overheating detected by the bios.

So all I did to fix it was to carefully remove all the paste from the heat sync and cpu and then apply a fresh dab. Job's a good'n

Hope this helps?

royaltiger · 02-09-2010, 10:44

Are you overclocking, this can be a cause, remove graphics card and reseat to make sure it is fitted properly otherwise try another graphics card this has to be first solution as it starts but you cant see the screen, another problem could be a stick of ram becoming faulty so run computer on one stick and then remove and replace with another to narrow down possibilities, also try the ram in all the slots to make sure one of the slots has not become faulty. If you built your computer you also need to double check all connections are fitted correctly, one connection could easily become "half in half out" without noticing if you have had your pc opened recently, especially the sata cables on hard drives.