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Journeyman
I was playing Tribes 2 provided on this months Digit DVD; decided to max all Graphics options; was playing with FULL SCREEN disabled.
Just 1 min after these changes- The screen went blank. The green Led on my cabinet was on. But I could see it was not rebooting; switched it off and tried to boot up. IT wouldn't.
after re checking by switching on and on again, I decided to open up. I touched the heat sink which was hot. ( not extremely hot)
After a while i plugged it back and re tried.
This time, I could see that on my mother board there is a green LED which is ON. (Does this mean the mother board is not fried up; that it is fine?).
I tried to switch it on. It wouldnt. But occasionally the fans start working (both proccesor fan and Power Supply fan) for a second and die off. During this time the RED LED on my casing also comes on for a sec and dies off ( I assumed the hard disk also starts to work! )..
Here are my sys specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MotherBoard.
512 MB RAM 333MHz
Samsung SATA 80GB Hard ?7200rpm
Samsung 753DFX 17" Monitor
nVidia GeForce MX 440 64MB card 8x
Mercury 'Oscar' cabinet with a 300W power supply.
OS : Windows XP Pro
[NO UPS]
I have checked and recheked- All the cables are plugged in- No loose cards. All capacitors on the MainBoard looks fine. No smell of fry ups. No Smoke. I have a Surge Protector. And there were no Brown Outs. Room Temperature was approx 29 degrees Celsius.
My Question is :
Can it be a the malfucntioning of the M Board or the P supply?
Any help would be appreciated much.
Thanks
Just 1 min after these changes- The screen went blank. The green Led on my cabinet was on. But I could see it was not rebooting; switched it off and tried to boot up. IT wouldn't.
after re checking by switching on and on again, I decided to open up. I touched the heat sink which was hot. ( not extremely hot)
After a while i plugged it back and re tried.
This time, I could see that on my mother board there is a green LED which is ON. (Does this mean the mother board is not fried up; that it is fine?).
I tried to switch it on. It wouldnt. But occasionally the fans start working (both proccesor fan and Power Supply fan) for a second and die off. During this time the RED LED on my casing also comes on for a sec and dies off ( I assumed the hard disk also starts to work! )..
Here are my sys specs:
AMD Athlon XP 2400+
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe MotherBoard.
512 MB RAM 333MHz
Samsung SATA 80GB Hard ?7200rpm
Samsung 753DFX 17" Monitor
nVidia GeForce MX 440 64MB card 8x
Mercury 'Oscar' cabinet with a 300W power supply.
OS : Windows XP Pro
[NO UPS]
I have checked and recheked- All the cables are plugged in- No loose cards. All capacitors on the MainBoard looks fine. No smell of fry ups. No Smoke. I have a Surge Protector. And there were no Brown Outs. Room Temperature was approx 29 degrees Celsius.
My Question is :
Can it be a the malfucntioning of the M Board or the P supply?
Any help would be appreciated much.
Thanks