Suddenly no boot, worked before.

[MindBuster]

I shut down my computer for the night and went to bed, this morning when i started it again it didnt boot

There is no post beep
The drives spin up
There is a green light on the mobo which IS lighting
Fan on vidcard is spinning

How could this have happened
Partially dead mobo maybe
i tried resetting cmos

Asus A7N8X deluxe rev 1.06
barton 2500 stock
9800pro
1gig ram in single channel
2 seagates on acard controller card

right now im pulling everything out, one piece at a time and try rebooting after each part, but still no postbeep

 

[Xrave]

You may have gotten a surge overnight.

I'd take out the video card and try it in a seperate computer, then try the RAM, etc

 

[MindBuster]

You may have gotten a surge overnight.

What you mean by that ? It was shut off.

Anyway, got it working, took everything out and put it back in again, reseating everything, now it works

Funny, atleast it should have given some error beeps, but it was just dead except for drives and fans spinning

 

[jyi786]

Did you have an OC on that processor? Sometimes, I know I've experienced it ONCE, the BIOS will forget the settings and fubar something in BIOS to make it lock up. In my case, I set the DDR ratio to 5/4 in order to run at 250FSB (I know, it's Intel), but the BIOS must have forgot it and set it back to 1/1 for whatever reason.

Mind you this only happened ONCE. I've had the board for about a year and half now, so it happens.

 

[Xrave]

What you mean by that ? It was shut off.

Anyway, got it working, took everything out and put it back in again, reseating everything, now it works

Funny, atleast it should have given some error beeps, but it was just dead except for drives and fans spinning

The computer doesn't have to be on for it to be hit by a surge.

 

[MindBuster]

ajm786, it have never been oC'ed.

xrave, it was shut off at the wallplug

 

[Xrave]

Well, as long as you reseated the parts and it worked, it's all good.

But the only 100% safe way to prevent something from getting hit by a surge is to unplug it from the power.