HELP!! comp just stopped working

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Suki243

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Well I tried to turn on my computer today and it didn't work. I turned it on, fans began to run everything but i left the room, i came back 5 min later but xp didn't load yet. I restarted it and mobo didn't post, the light it still on and everything but no asus video none at all no beeps or anything. The only major thing that happened recently was I tried to put another stick of ram in but i put it in the wrong slot causing it to mess up and give off the foul odor of burning plastic. I immediatly took out the stick of ram and restarted the comp and it worked fine. That was two days ago. Yesterday i put the stick of ram in the right place, after checking if it was stil good in another ocmputer,and it worked fine. I took it out and turned off computer, and restarted it again and again it was fine. Till today. help please is mobo dead? cmos needs to be reset? hdd dead? (my comp is the only one that supports sata...

edit1; i tried tot ake out ram and it did give me beeps.
 
This Is frustrating.... I found out that my sata's power cord molex had broke so i bought a new one and replaced, still doesn't work, then i removed my video card and booted up but it didn't recognize the video card was gone in just kept running and running without psots, i replaced video card same. I unpluged all devices like usbs no dice, i removed ram it gave me a beep error, then i tried to reset cmos ( if it is moving a jumper pin to one side for 5 sec and the moving to its original again then yes i did it.) I'm running out of things to check for, should i go and buy a replacement mobo and check if thats the problem?

Edit: I tried another Video Card its an old ati it says rage theater on it but ya it doest work in the comp either...
Edit: I tried my hdd in another comp and it works
 
So I have tested everything in other computers except my motherboard, psu and cpu as well as my cd and floppy drives. Could it be a software issue or is it a motherboard being fried issue anyone? edit: btw specs are in my sig.
 
Well...if you smelled burning after installing a piece of hardware, and that piece of hardware still works, I'd wager it's your mobo. If it wasn't dead after that, odds are, it was dying.

Take the mobo out and look for damage on both sides. Always sucks when a mobo dies. :(
 
i'm putting my money on mobo, since you smelled burning and removing the component didn't fix it.
 
try removing every part and take the mobo battery out. then put it back part by part starting w/ cpu (w/ cpu only boot the system- if it beeps it recognize the cpu and mobo but din't see any memory installed) after that, put the memory on (now you have cpu and memory on the mobo) boot up the system and check again, if it says no bootable device found then all is working on the part that was installed- cpu, memory, mobo. next, install the hdd ..
if upon installing the memory it doesnt boot, turn off computer and put the memory in another slotrepeat the process until u've used all the slot and still same prob. if all slots were used and same prob. occurs get anotehr memory stick if u've extra and put the stick on, and repeat the process of installing the memory on all slots. NOTE: if you have more than 1 memory stick i advice you not to put them together at once but one stick at a time to eliminate w/c stick is bad or good.
 
it recognizes the cpu is in there, the memory in there, if i take out vga nothing happens it just keeps spinning everything else, when i plug it in still no response, hdd doesn't seem to be spinning for more than 3 seconds, floppy works in other comps, optical drive works in other comps, ram works in other comps, everything works in the other comps but i haven't tried swaping out processor or motherboard, or psu.

Edit: i Also took everything out and reinstalled everysingle part of the comp and it still doesn't work so...

I talked to some guys down at frys and he said to try a pci not pci-e card in there to see if the agp slot is the problem and it isn't it doesn't work with the pci slot either, i took out the motherboard looked around it and i dont see any burn marks, the cpu however when i initially pulled it out was black on the top i dont know if it was dirty or not like grease or anything but it was blackish, the bottom was fine. The guy at frys also said that its probably my mobo being dead also, i also believe that too.

Is it true that the 2.8 p4's are huge juice suckers? So i am thinking of getting a new processor, and motherboard perhaps a new psu but not fully decided yet. I think its time to throw in the towel on this, i've had this setup for 3-4 years now. What do you guys think?
 
BTW: I am thinking of switching to an amd mobo with a x2 proc. would i have to buy the windows xp 64 or can i stay with xp pro. cause i really dont want to reformatt, are there any more handicaps or pre-preps before i decide to buy the x2? I am open to suggestions, i need a decent mobo and proc. im willing to spend 500ish, i also want to keep my 9800 pro as long as it lasts.
And i am most probably not going to overclock and i just got a gig of ram corsair pc3200 twinx that was supposed to go into my old mobo but... well u know. My daily activities include cs:s perhaps cs, call of duty, word, internet, music, aim etc... sometimes use for making camcorder home videos into dvds.
 
if you're ready to throw in the towel then go for AMD i second ur decision. however pick socket 939 is this soicket offers plenty of room for upgrade. if you plan to overclock it get the opteron if not any of the a64 would do. looking for the dual core boards i'd say asus a8n32 sli deluxe, or those dfi boards.

if i were in ur shoes i'd stil lwant to ttrouble the old p4. u tried another hdd on it?

BTW can you get into BIOS? can your bios see the hdd, memory and cpu?
 
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