No video or beeps

Running out of ideas as to what could be wrong and would like your input. The system has a Athlon T-bird 1.4 on a Asus A7A266 motherboard. The system was working fine. Then my brother-in-law wanted to change the case the system was in. After he did that. The system would not boot at all. He put everything back in the first case and it did not boot there either. There is no video at all, so you can not see to get into the BIOS and there are no beeps. From what I have done I think he must of did something to the CPU. The power supply is good as is the video card and memory as I tested them on a old board I had. Tried to boot from a startup floppy but that did not work either. There is a light on the motherboard and that comes on as does the lights in the CD-ROM and Floppy. And the LED lights light on the case. I would welcome anybody thoughts what they think mite be the problem.

 

Check all the connections power, IDE drives, The RAM, make sure the CPU is in corretly & the heatsink is seated properly. Look on your motherboard for a jumper to clear the CMOS (some have this some don't) if yours has this then clear the CMOS as the motherboard manual suggest if you don't have your manual you can download one here http://download.asus.com.tw/mb_dl_menu.asp?Status=61&l1=1&l2=10&l3=17&mid=1 If there was no Bios upgrade or or anything like that done then the CPU may very well be damaged. Was the CPU removed from it's socket during the case swap? I had an Amptron board once that when it was brand new wouldn't POST or anuthing until I unplugged the power supply, removed the CMOS battery & changed the jumper for about 1 min. then reset jumper, reinstall battery, plug power cable back in. Worth a shot.

Bubba169

 

Thanks for the reply. The CPU was not removed from the MB when the case was changed and there was no BIOS upgrade. I gave it a shot at what you said to do, with no luck at getting the system to boot. Maybe the CPU is dead.

 

The CPU or the motherboard or both may have been fried by static electricity while they were out of the case. The old motherboard you tested your memory, video, & power supply on wouldn't happen to have an AMD CPU in it. If so then swap that CPU (even if it is a slower one) to the dead board & see if will boot, if it does then the CPU is dead if it doesn't then the Motherboard is dead. Another thing I just thought of is that when the motherboard was swapped to the new case if the standoffs weren't used properly or used at all then the board may have been shorted out & fried.

Bubba169

 

The board I did use to test the power supply, memory and video card was a older AMD. It takes a socket 7 type CPU so I can not swap the CPU. I guess my best bet now is to tell my brother-in -law to see if he knows someone that has a board or CPU that we can use just to test to see if it is the board or the CPU that is bad. Thanks again for your help.

 

Yeah that's probably the best bet. You may have to bite the bullet and buy a new motherboard & a faster CPU, just get one that supports your memory, & fits your case. These things happen sometimes but who knows the failed part may have been on the way out anyways at least these parts are a lot cheaper than they were a few years ago.

Good luck

Bubba169

 

He has been wanting to upgrade now he has to. Only this time he will not be putting the system together. He is handing that job to me.