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From: Ron on 16 May 2010 17:34
I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way
and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return
when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains
on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power
pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the
dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard
drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I
also can’t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch.
I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard,
including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to
power up each time but I just get the same thing.

I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000
with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now
out of ideas.
From: Pegasus [MVP] on 16 May 2010 17:49


"Ron" <ron6a(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:4b2d9c2a-88aa-4b88-b3eb-203572a09dec(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
> I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way
> and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return
> when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains
> on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power
> pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the
> dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard
> drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I
> also can�t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch.
> I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard,
> including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to
> power up each time but I just get the same thing.
>
> I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000
> with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now
> out of ideas.

Everything you report points towards a hardware issue. You do not even
mention the word "Windows". The experts in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.hardware might be best qualified to provide
advice.

From: Lem on 16 May 2010 17:53
Ron wrote:
> I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way
> and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return
> when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains
> on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power
> pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the
> dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard
> drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I
> also can�t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch.
> I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard,
> including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to
> power up each time but I just get the same thing.
>
> I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000
> with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now
> out of ideas.

Is there any evidence elsewhere in the house of there having been an
electrical problem, e.g., clocks not at the right time, appliances
needing to be reset, etc.?

--
Lem

Apollo 11 - 40 years ago:
http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/40th/index.html
From: Don Phillipson on 16 May 2010 17:53
"Ron" <ron6a(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:4b2d9c2a-88aa-4b88-b3eb-203572a09dec(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
<< I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way
and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return
when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains
on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power
pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the
dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard
drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I
also can�t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch.
I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard,
including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to
power up each time but I just get the same thing.>>

In your place I would take the RAM chips to a PC shop
that can test them reliably. A single bad RAM unit can
have effects like this.
--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)



From: Db on 16 May 2010 18:07
sounds like a difficult
issue to figure out.

what I first try is to
boot into the bios
and ensure that the
time and devices are
are recognized.

if the bios time is incorrect,
and the device settings are
blanked out, then it is likely
the cmos battery went bad.

if however, your bios
settings are ok and still
can't get the system to
boot via the hard drive,

then you will likely have
to boot with a xp cd and
bypass the hard drive.

(to do the above you may
need to re enter the bios
and change the primary
boot device to cd)

then at the xp setup screen
launch the repair/recovery
console and see if you get
to a disk prompt.

if so, then I would run a

fixmbr
chkdsk /r
fixboot

then exit, remove cd
and try to boot via hard
drives.


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"Ron" <ron6a(a)ntlworld.com> wrote in message
news:4b2d9c2a-88aa-4b88-b3eb-203572a09dec(a)q13g2000vbm.googlegroups.com...
> I went away for all of last week and shut down my pc in the usual way
> and also switched of the power at the mains as well. On my return
> when I switched it back on, it starts up as soon as I turn the mains
> on at the wall socket. The power pack starts, the fans on the power
> pack, cpu and motherboard run, the keyboard and mouse light up, the
> dvd/cd drives light up but it does nothing else. No beep, no hard
> drives, no signal to the monitor, no response from the power button. I
> also can�t shut it down at all other than by the mains on off switch.
> I have removed every lead and plugin component from the motherboard,
> including the bios battery, and one by one reconnected each trying to
> power up each time but I just get the same thing.
>
> I seem to be getting power to the motherboard Gigabyte GA-81PE1000
> with P4 3.0Ghz proccessor as the fans on the board run but I am now
> out of ideas.

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