Did i kill my computer?

[RLeav20717]

So i had gotten a new Mobo and atx mid tower case, and i attempted to put my existing hardware in the new case (radeon pro,hdd,dvd+drive,etc)...but it never would turn on...prolly a bad mobo id say....BUT now...i put it all back into my comp, and now it doesnt load nothing..no BIOS.....or anything but, everything does power on? im thinking maybe i somehow fried the HDD, but if that was teh case, the BIOS would still show up....if you need any pictures or more info to help me out lemme know...this is killing me

 

[Farva]

my previous experience shows that your mobo is dead. everything powers up, but nothing posts

 

[DanK]

Try resetting the BIOS via the motherboard jumper before rushing to conclusions.

 

[Aristotle13]

Do you even see the bios flash?

Last week when I was building wifey's new gaming rig, I had the same simptoms. What I found was that I had a bad HDD. And every time I tried to fire it up, it would not go past bios and intermittently went into bios. Brand new 200gb sata WD hdd too.

Bring it down to bare bones. Unplug everything, graphics card, sound card, run only one hdd and one optical. Then fire it up, if it runs, reboot and plug something else back in, repeat until you have found your culprit.

Sometimes it just takes having one bad SATA cable, IDE cable or bad hardware to begin with that could cause problems like these.

One other thing, make sure that all appropriate slave/master settings are set up and plugged in correctly.

good luck

 

[scout007]

step 1: just having your video card, processor, RAM, mobo plug in. See if it turns on and have graphics. If it does, then it must be your other components, you can use detective work to figure it out, (stop reading my post). If not, then it is your mobo, PSU,processor, RAM or vid card.

step 2: reset CMOS on mobo, see mobo docs. repeat step 1. If you get warning sounds (beeps) then it is a good sign, you can tell what the error is by the way it is beeping. Usually on my system it is because I didn't have the CMOS settings on correctly, it is very important you go to CMOS setup screen at first boot or else you will need to reset CMOS again.

step 3: You need spare parts to go any further if step 2 fails.