Leldorion Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 I'm not sure if this is the system in my signature, but the same will follow either way, so here's the story: I was recently mailed one of my old systems and it wouldn't start on powering up. The light indicated that power was going to the mobo though so I took it out of the case in the hopes that it was just because it was grounding out, but still had no luck. After various other tests; replacing the video card and PSU mostly, I came to the conclussion that the motherboard was fried (when connected to a regular molex the hard drives would spin up, but when I connected the IDE line they failed to spin up at all, indicating a dead IDE controller). I worry that it took other components with it, is the problem. I noticed a strange smell about the third time I started it up (mmmm capacitor stink) that worried me and seemed to come from the video card and I'm still convinced it did. What I need to know is with the motherboard being dead and my video card be connected to a molex is this a common occurance? If so is it a sure thing that my card is also fried? Any estimate from someone who's been through this on the possibility of this surge (or whatever it was) ruining the rest of my attached equipment? I don't have a test system here that I can just throw parts into and check and I don't want to replace absolutely everything if I can help it. And if I need to purchase a whole new system well...I guess I can sell whatever works (hard drives, memory?) and move on. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fire_storm Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 How old is the system? Try reseting the cmos and see if that works. But other than that sounds like your in a bad situation because you don't have a second system to test your parts in you'll have to replace the parts one by one and see which ones work or not. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leldorion Posted April 20, 2007 Posted April 20, 2007 How old is the system? Try reseting the cmos and see if that works. It is the system in my sig and it is a few years old. But worked perfectly fine before it was sent to me. I'll give reseting the cmos a try, but later as then I'll have another board to have my video card in and hopefully not stinking it up, I don't want to risk experimenting with things if I have a probability of losing them. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
hitoriko Posted April 25, 2007 Posted April 25, 2007 sounds like your board maybe friedrice! - that smeel could ahve been the PSU, but if there still isn't any boot, try a diff graphic card (in your agp) and still no visual try a PCI one... that smeel could also be caused by your Overclock! OR bite the bullet and upgrade.... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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