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I need your advice. Two days ago I turned on my old computer in order to check mails. When I had just booted into Windows the screen went black, Monitor went into standby - nothing. So I turned it off and tried to fire it back up. The PSU comes on, HDDs start spinning, all fans running, green and red LED on my IC7-G lit (no debugging LEDs, just confirms the established voltage connnection to the PSU), BUT not a single beep from the speaker, the monitor doesn't comes on and the the harddisks do nothing after they spin up, so I figure the machine doesn't boot.
What I did so far: First swapped the vidcard, but nothing changed, then I exchanged the CPU, again to no avail. When I swapped the CPU I noticed, however, that the heatsink on the northbridge had slightly slid out of place and that it was not sitting even on the die underneath. When I removed it the thing still looked pretty decent, but on the heatsink there are literally black scortched spots, so I *think* the northbridge blew (even though I heared some ppl even ran their IC7-G without one on the northbridge for some time
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Now, I ran out of compatible parts to swap out. Do you guys think it is the mainboard or the RAM (which is pretty much my only other option)? The board should give me RAM-error beeps then though, shouldn't it? Also, what are my chances of other components beeing fried IF the northbrigde went up in flames? If you guys agree on that it is probably the board I'll order a dirt cheap new one today, so advice is greatly appreciated.
(ex-)system:
abit IC7-G
P2.4C formerly overclocked to 3.2
2 GB Kingston RAM
2x Maxtor 80GB drives
sapphire 9700pro
pinnacle PCTV
cheers,
J
What I did so far: First swapped the vidcard, but nothing changed, then I exchanged the CPU, again to no avail. When I swapped the CPU I noticed, however, that the heatsink on the northbridge had slightly slid out of place and that it was not sitting even on the die underneath. When I removed it the thing still looked pretty decent, but on the heatsink there are literally black scortched spots, so I *think* the northbridge blew (even though I heared some ppl even ran their IC7-G without one on the northbridge for some time
)Now, I ran out of compatible parts to swap out. Do you guys think it is the mainboard or the RAM (which is pretty much my only other option)? The board should give me RAM-error beeps then though, shouldn't it? Also, what are my chances of other components beeing fried IF the northbrigde went up in flames? If you guys agree on that it is probably the board I'll order a dirt cheap new one today, so advice is greatly appreciated.
(ex-)system:
abit IC7-G
P2.4C formerly overclocked to 3.2
2 GB Kingston RAM
2x Maxtor 80GB drives
sapphire 9700pro
pinnacle PCTV
cheers,
J
