Another DEAD system???

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:20 am

Well, I took my Abit KV8 pro system over to the other house I leased from a friend and been staying there all the time now.

So all was well for one night. Last night I was listening to Mp3's and doing some stuff in a 3d program. I got a funny bleep or gleep type sound which I thought was a glitch in the Mp3, but then I noticed my 3D program was not responding and my music stopped.
Could not Ctrl-alt-delete into task manager either. Everything totally locked up.

So I hit the power button and shut it down.
It never started again since

When I press the power button the CPU fan spins up for a second and that's it.
Of course I have now pulled everything and tried to boot it with just 1 stick of ram and video, also without the video card.
Nope, it just spins up that fan for a second and right back off.

I'll take another P/S over tonight and swap that, see if maybe it's a power problem.

If I need a new board I'll need alot more stuff too since that's a 754 type board
with AGP video and DDR ram.

MRCOMPUTER · Post by **MRCOMPUTER** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 4:55 am

Check the board for bad caps.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 5:00 am

I checked and didn't find any yet

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:53 am

Hopefully it's the PSU.

wvjohn · Post by **wvjohn** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:23 am

I'd guess the psu as well

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 10:09 am

I hope you guys are right. Luckily I bought an extra P/S last time I bought from newegg so I have one here in the box and just have to take it over tonight and try it.

I'm not ready to build another system unless I really have to.

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:58 pm

Well I tried the new P/S and nothing.

I had an old e-mail I found back when I first bought this one used and could not get it running then, turned out then it was a loose CPU perhaps. This heat sink is a BIG copper one and when I took it off before the CPU stuck to it and slid right out of the socket, no force. Seemed it worked fine once I put it back in again.

Well, I just moved this system from one house to another, gently, and now it does not work again. Although it did work awhile (about 1 1/2 days) then locked up.
I took the heat sink off and again the CPU was stuck to the bottom of it and came right out of the socket. I wonder if that big heat sink can jiggle a bit when moving the system and messes up the CPU in the socket.

I'll put it back together soon, I did not have my heat compound over there so I couldn't yet.