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[Forsete]

Yesterday when booting one of my computers the system froze while loading the operating system. I rebooted and was greeted by a blank screen, no video signal at all, not even at POST. I tried rebooting several times but with the same result.
So I thought the GPU might be dead (after all, its quite old. GeForce 4 Ti4200 never overclocked.) I replaced it with an even older GPU which I know works, an nVidia TNT 2 Ultra. But I still didn’t get a video signal. I tried different monitors a TFT and a CRT, none of them detect any signals (not with DVI nor VGA cables). So now I’m thinking the mobo might have died in some mysterious way.
I remove the VGA card and check if the mobo starts beeping a code for a missing VGA card, however it does not. The only activity I notice is that the CD-ROM drive light lights up 2 times, and that the fans power up as usual.

I’ve had problems with busted capacitors on other motherboards but I don’t seem to have any busted caps on this one. I got this motherboard a few months ago used, it had been used in a shop as a demo product and was in a very good condition.

The system has run without any problems for months, I haven’t done any modification to it during this time, no BIOS updates and no hardware changes.

So now I’m thinking the mobo must be dead? Anything else I should try before officially declaring this sucker dead?

Thanks for any help.

Here are the specs in case you want to check them out.

Motherboard: MSI KT4V-L
Processor: AMD Athlon XP 1900+ (1.6GHz)
Memory: PC2700 512MB
GPU: nVidia GeForce 4 Ti4200 or nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra 32MB

 

[yodandy]

If your not getting any beeps w/out a card in there its most likely the mobo, same thing happened to one of mine recently, still waiting for weeks on the friggin RMA.

Try swapping/taking out the ram and listening for beeps, then the cpu and listening for beeps, if your not gettting beeps, its def. the mobo.

 

[Forsete]

If your not getting any beeps w/out a card in there its most likely the mobo, same thing happened to one of mine recently, still waiting for weeks on the friggin RMA.

Try swapping/taking out the ram and listening for beeps, then the cpu and listening for beeps, if your not gettting beeps, its def. the mobo.

Thanks, I'll try that tomorrow.

This problem has sucked the energy out of me.

 

[Phranky]

I read the title as "Dead hobo? Suggestions?". I'm disappointed.