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Patsy7z7 · 01-24-2007, 10:14 PM

Greetings, lets get started.

This computer is very top notch but i'll tell show you things which are important to my issue. The motherboard is an Asus P5VD1-X and it uses an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has a very old power supply, and good, healthy RAM.

The issue here is: This computer has been working completely well. There were no issues whatsoever, except recently (and spontaneously) this: There is an issue, probably having to do with the power supply's habit of overheating. I do not know the cause, i assume age, but the hard drive runs incredibly hot (only on this comp, i have diagnosed on another comp and it runs fine) and the power supply is near scalding. Recently, the computer has been failing to boot. The small green LED on the motherboard is lit, and all the fans spin, including the processor fan, when the power button is pressed. However, nothing else occurs. No sounds are made from the beep/fart, no output to the monitor, and no power/signals to the CD and floppy drives. The processor runs cold, and all heat sinks are cool as well. The computer continues to sit on its standby mode, not initializing any form of BIOS.

On another note, the HDD has failed to work. Diagnostics show that it has been damaged irrepairably. I assume the overheating has effectively killed it. Oh well, i guess crap happens.

I have already done much diagnostic on this machine. Things including removing RAM and booting, checking the CPU, etc. However, if you feel it is nessissary to recheck then feel free to tell me. I need ideas to REPAIR the problem, not REPLACE. I do not have the time nor resources to replace the power supply, so that is out of the question.

I would like this to be a speedy repair, but this seems to be a hardware issue, and not anything easily fixed. Please keep in mind that this computer was working exceptionally one minute, and in literally the next all the failures occured.

01-24-2007, 10:14 PM	#1 (permalink)
Patsy7z7 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 9 OS: Win XP SP2	P5VD1-X--No BIOS or sound. Greetings, lets get started. This computer is very top notch but i'll tell show you things which are important to my issue. The motherboard is an Asus P5VD1-X and it uses an Intel Core 2 Duo processor. It has a very old power supply, and good, healthy RAM. The issue here is: This computer has been working completely well. There were no issues whatsoever, except recently (and spontaneously) this: There is an issue, probably having to do with the power supply's habit of overheating. I do not know the cause, i assume age, but the hard drive runs incredibly hot (only on this comp, i have diagnosed on another comp and it runs fine) and the power supply is near scalding. Recently, the computer has been failing to boot. The small green LED on the motherboard is lit, and all the fans spin, including the processor fan, when the power button is pressed. However, nothing else occurs. No sounds are made from the beep/fart, no output to the monitor, and no power/signals to the CD and floppy drives. The processor runs cold, and all heat sinks are cool as well. The computer continues to sit on its standby mode, not initializing any form of BIOS. On another note, the HDD has failed to work. Diagnostics show that it has been damaged irrepairably. I assume the overheating has effectively killed it. Oh well, i guess crap happens. I have already done much diagnostic on this machine. Things including removing RAM and booting, checking the CPU, etc. However, if you feel it is nessissary to recheck then feel free to tell me. I need ideas to REPAIR the problem, not REPLACE. I do not have the time nor resources to replace the power supply, so that is out of the question. I would like this to be a speedy repair, but this seems to be a hardware issue, and not anything easily fixed. Please keep in mind that this computer was working exceptionally one minute, and in literally the next all the failures occured.