As stated, I have a media center PC built that had been working fine for months. The other day it shut off randomly, and now I cannot get it to display anything. I tried using the PCI-e video card, as well as the onboard video, none with any luck. There are no POST beeps or anything, so I am assuming the hardware is alright, but I'm really not sure at this point.
The one thing that stuck out as weird to me, is that the IDE cable controlling one of my storage drives, as well as the optical drive, seems to be bad. When I have it connected to the devices, neither of them power up on boot at all, whereas if I only plug them into power, they work just fine. I am planning on getting a new IDE cable to try tomorrow, but there is no reason it shouldn't work without it, seeing as neither of those components are necessary for it to function.
I tried booting it up with one stick of Ram (tried each one once), also with no luck. I re-seated every part in the mobo, just to be safe, with no avail.
Any ideas are appreciated!!
Components:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200
XFX GeForce 8600GT
Biostar NF61S Micro ATX Mobo
2 gig DDR2 800Mhz Corsair XMS2 Ram
2 320gig SATA WE Hard Drives
Hopefully I can get this resolved, thanks in advance~!!!!
The one thing that stuck out as weird to me, is that the IDE cable controlling one of my storage drives, as well as the optical drive, seems to be bad. When I have it connected to the devices, neither of them power up on boot at all, whereas if I only plug them into power, they work just fine. I am planning on getting a new IDE cable to try tomorrow, but there is no reason it shouldn't work without it, seeing as neither of those components are necessary for it to function.
I tried booting it up with one stick of Ram (tried each one once), also with no luck. I re-seated every part in the mobo, just to be safe, with no avail.
Any ideas are appreciated!!
Components:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 5200
XFX GeForce 8600GT
Biostar NF61S Micro ATX Mobo
2 gig DDR2 800Mhz Corsair XMS2 Ram
2 320gig SATA WE Hard Drives
Hopefully I can get this resolved, thanks in advance~!!!!