Serious Help Needed

[Invalid]

OK guys. My brand new pc just took a sh!t. I have troubleshooted some basics and am getting nowhere!

Here is what has been happening. From day one I had weird video problems off and on. Sometimes I would turn the comp on and there would be no display, the screen would stay black. I would reset and it would come right back.

Other times I would boot and it would stick on the PLatinum screen.

Then one day I booted up and it proceeded to install drivers for "New hardware found" which was supposedly the video card. The same one thats been there all along.

So today was the final crap. My screen is on but frozen. I reset and it comes up to a windows error that it cannot find a specified file in system32. THis is more than likely from my hard reset. SO I run winxp repair and repair this issue.

Then it boots up and again freezes right away and I get a blue screen of death. Just a general one saying check for any new hardware, or bios updates.

So I restart again. This time and from this point on my screen will not even turn on. Black screen no matter what.

I put in another video card I have and same result. Black screen no signal.

I removed all memory but one stick. no luck. I reset the cmos. No luck.

Guys, I need some help here. This system is not even a couple weeks old. As of right now I am thinking motherboard.

Any help is GREATLY appreciated.

MY system is:

MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum
2g PC 3200 Corsair Value Mem 4x512
160g Seagate Barracuda HD IDE
XFX Geforce 6600GT
Athlon64 3200+

No overclocking, no anything custom.

[ỒĊBłůē]

What make and model PSU are you running, out of interest?

[Invalid]

Ultra Xconnect 500w

[ỒĊBłůē]

Not going to be a problem there then. ^_^

[fillip]

If it wont even attempt to post properly it sounds like it's a mobo problem.

The psu should be fine, you've ruled out GPU, RAM, HDD would only be an issue after the boot-strapping sequence since thats conducted in onboard memory. I don't really know what would happen if the CPU was dead tbh, I've never seen one die without extreme punishment.

I'm thinking it could be RMA time. http://wizdforums.co.uk/images/smilies/unsure.gif

[Invalid]

Yeah. Tonight I am going to pull out my old mobo and cpu and try it with everything else and just that. From there though I cant test the mobo or cpu direct as my old mobo is for xpamd.


CAn I try removing the battery from the motherboard and putting it back in? Would that reset anything in the motherboard?

[Invalid]

Ok it is the motherboard.

I tried it with my old soyo motherboard and athlonxp 2400+ and everything worked fine. I am figuring out now how to RMA this piece of sh!t to MSI.

This really sucks.

[GodsUnicorn]

I hate it when things go tits up:mad: even more so when they are new.

Glad you found the problem and hope you get it sorted soon.

[zer0]

another thought is your mother board might not be going bad but did you perhaps thake your hard drive and other hard ware from your soyo mother board and put it on this new msi one... keeping your same windows instalation and everyting...

honestly i would never do that as you could run in to issues with driver conflicts and other problems (my bigest clue is the blue screen of death)

but if you did install a new version of windows with this new hardware and it still does this it might be the mother boards falt... but what i can see is it youf mother board is at falt then you probly would have had issues with installing windows.

[Invalid]

Everything was brand new and installed brand new. From the very beginning I had issues. I think it just finally totally died. I ignored the issues thinking they were small hiccups with all the new hardware, etc. In the future I will not ignore such things.

Tomorrow I am going to take out the mobo and put in my old one. sigh.