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lilshawn:
Just a shot in the dark, but sometimes the good has a failsafe mode (used to boot when an overclocking configuration fails) on mine i have to hold insert and hold it while i power the computer on. check your manual.

I'm just thinking the bios  got corrupted. maybe you pull the chip and program it with a burner maybe? had to do that before.

leapinlew:

--- Quote from: lilshawn on November 09, 2011, 12:20:06 pm ---I'm just thinking the bios  got corrupted.

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I have never had to do that. As far as I'm concerned, if the BIOS were corrupt, I would be in the market for a new machine.

knave:
I had a PC that showed similar symptoms a few years ago. It turned out to be a grounding issue. Some piece of the Mobo was touching the case and it wouldn't do anything. Once I fixed it the PC ran fine.

I would try taking the mobo out of the case and powering it up with ram/cpu only and see what you get.
I know its a PITA other than that it sounds like a bad Mobo.

One question, have you tried booting it w/o ram and see if you get any beeps?

shmokes:
Yeah, tried booting with no RAM. Even tried booting with no CPU. Nothing I could do would produce beeps. I suppose I may as well try firing it up outside the case. I've already pulled it to send the motherboard back to the manufacturer for RMA. I was pretty fortunate there. Although the computer itself is not under warranty, Asus provides at least a 3 year warranty on all their motherboards, so I only have to pay for shipping. Much better than replacing a $300 motherboard, though. I'm still worried that the motherboard will come back and I'll still be in the same boat because the actual problem was the CPU or videocard. But I sort of doubt it. I can't imagine why one of those problems wouldn't be producing beep codes, even when I tried to boot with those devices removed entirely. So at this point, I'm leaning heavily toward motherboard. I'll throw it on a piece of cardboard and try to boot, though, just to be sure. The RMA is going to take 10 business days, not including shipping, so if I can figure out that the motherboard is fine before shipping it off, I'll be pretty happy.

ark_ader:

--- Quote from: shmokes on November 10, 2011, 04:08:12 pm ---Yeah, tried booting with no RAM. Even tried booting with no CPU. Nothing I could do would produce beeps. I suppose I may as well try firing it up outside the case. I've already pulled it to send the motherboard back to the manufacturer for RMA. I was pretty fortunate there. Although the computer itself is not under warranty, Asus provides at least a 3 year warranty on all their motherboards, so I only have to pay for shipping. Much better than replacing a $300 motherboard, though. I'm still worried that the motherboard will come back and I'll still be in the same boat because the actual problem was the CPU or videocard. But I sort of doubt it. I can't imagine why one of those problems wouldn't be producing beep codes, even when I tried to boot with those devices removed entirely. So at this point, I'm leaning heavily toward motherboard. I'll throw it on a piece of cardboard and try to boot, though, just to be sure. The RMA is going to take 10 business days, not including shipping, so if I can figure out that the motherboard is fine before shipping it off, I'll be pretty happy.

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