HELP! Friend's Computer Wont boot

ShiBDiB · Feb 4, 2011

So in the middle of an epic Anno 1404 game my friend decided to plug in his phone into the usb port to charge. This froze his computer forcing him to restart. Now on restart it wont even boot to bios. No keyboard lights, no mouse power. All the fans are running and I can hear the HD spin up,

Fixes I've tried
1. Reset BIOS
2. New RAM
3. New Video Card
4. Some weird holding the power button thing I found on some cheapy help forum.
Edit:
5. Disconnected the front USB headers
6. Tried with RAM out, no beeps

My guess is the mobo kicked the bucket when he plugged in his phone. Any other idea's?

Arrakis9 · Feb 4, 2011

check the usb port itself and make sure none of the pins are bent and making contact with the housing

ShiBDiB · Feb 4, 2011

Arrakis+9 said:
check the usb port itself and make sure none of the pins are bent and making contact with the housing

Their a little bent, so I just unplugged the front USB headers, still no bios.

micropage7 · Feb 4, 2011

try to unplug the 24 pin power then re plugin again
have you try to turn it on without ram? Does it beep? If beep the board is ok

ShiBDiB · Feb 4, 2011

micropage7 said:
try to unplug the 24 pin power then re plugin again
have you try to turn it on without ram? Does it beep? If beep the board is ok

RAM's out, no beep.

Boards a http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1055/epox_optimus_ep_af590_sli2_motherboard/index.html

trickson · Feb 4, 2011

My guess is the PSU is gone . try another PSU .
OOPPs posted too soon the MB may be gone . if there is no beep when RAM is out .

newtekie1 · Feb 4, 2011

Try a new power supply.

Edit: Great minds, trickson.

ShiBDiB · Feb 4, 2011

I'll give an old PSU a go. I'm doubtful tho

newtekie1 · Feb 4, 2011

ShiBDiB said:
I'll give an old PSU a go. I'm doubtful tho

Yeah, if it isn't the PSU, it is more than likely the motherboards. But I've seen this symptom with both.

JrRacinFan · Feb 4, 2011

I myself as well had both symptoms in the past. One was motherboard failure, the other was power supply. Just backing up your statements trickson and newtekie.

micropage7 · Feb 4, 2011

ShiBDiB said:
RAM's out, no beep.

Boards a http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/1055/epox_optimus_ep_af590_sli2_motherboard/index.html

it looks the board got err
try to put the board off the case and inspect it, maybe there any shortcircuit or something, i asumme your psu is ok

newtekie1 · Feb 4, 2011

micropage7 said:
it looks the board got err
try to put the board off the case and inspect it, maybe there any shortcircuit or something, i asumme your psu is ok

No beep when the RAM is removed doesn't instantly mean motherboard. If the PSU is gone and isn't supply power to the 4/8 Pin then the CPU can't be initialized. So the POST never gets to the point where it checks RAM and beeps.

ShiBDiB · Feb 4, 2011

No luck with either backup psu, so looks like the mobo is bad

newtekie1 · Feb 4, 2011

ShiBDiB said:
No luck with either backup psu, so looks like the mobo is bad

That sucks, I'd say the mobo is definitely gone then.

trickson · Feb 4, 2011

Yep that sucks man . The MB is done for . Sorry for that I hope you can get it fixed for him soon .

ctrain · Feb 5, 2011

Do you have any USB devices plugged in at all? Remove ALL of them and try.

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HELP! Friend's Computer Wont boot

ShiBDiB

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micropage7

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trickson

OH, I have such a headache

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OH, I have such a headache

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