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Odd problem.

rudy

rudy

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I have an athlon 5000 system not sure anything else yet. It was a gateway, always hated the thing someone gave it to me. Normally when it boots up the power LED goes on and off 3 or 4 times then finally it starts boothing. Really stupid IMO. It is mostly a stock computer but I inherited it with a bad PSU so I replaced the PSU with an old antec 500 watt.

Anyhow recently it just stopped booting, if you press power the power light goes on and off 3 or 4 times and fans spin up then down a couple times. Finally you hear an odd clicking which I am pretty sure is coming from the mobo speaker. Then it just shuts down and restarts the process. Nothing comes on the monitor.

So I suspected it to be the motherboard or PSU. I pulled another computer over next to it and used the PSU (hiper R580) from that one to power the mobo on this gateway. The funnything is when the other PSU plugs into and I turn on the power and press the power button. There is no blinking power light there is no power light turn on at all the fans just go real fast and never stop until I kill the power on the R580 PSU. I cant turn it off with a 4 second power button hold either.

What is the deal? mobo? Is it possible that some odd loop can be created between 2 computers I did not unplug everything from the second test computer before I plugged in the PSU.
 
It may be possible that its the harddrive clicking. (If theres an actual click) make sure the Case speaker (if there is one) is plugged in correctly to the MB or if the MB has an On board speaker. then do a beep test listen for beeps and look up beep codes online according to board brand, to try to get it to post or to pin down the problem.
 
The motherboard has an onboard speaker and I tested with the hard drive power cable removed. There is no beep codes it does not get that far I guess. Maybe the clicking is the speaker trying to beep I dont know.
 
hmm has the on board speaker ever beeped before? from what i know on board speakers rarely give out..
 
Yes it beeped before regardless of the speaker giving out the motherboard does not boot.
 
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