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Plug in AC Power, CPU Fan at Full Speed, No Boot
Hello and thanks for reading.
When I plug in the AC power cord to the PSU, all fans, including the CPU cooler, immediately turn on at full speed, but no boot at all. No POST, hard drive does not spin up, LEDs on optical drives do not blink.
I was able to temporarily solve it by totally disassembling the computer. I removed all drives, cards, connectors, CMOS battery. Carefully and extensively blew out all dust from case and boards.
Then the video became unstable and would show a scrambled image. Next, the problem returned. I disassembled/reassembled again but did not solve it this time.
I also tried replacing the PSU and the CMOS battery, clearing CMOS, different AC cord, different power outlet.
Does not matter whether the front panel switch is connected or not. Simply connecting the AC power cord causes all fans to run at full speed with no boot or POST apparent.
Can a mobo/cpu problem be intermittent? I thought either the motherboard works, or it doesn't.
Yes, yes here is the system:
HP Pavilion a1430n--
> Mainboard : Asus A8N-LA NAGAMI
> Chipset : nVidia nForce 410
> Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ @ 2000MHz
> Physical Memory : 1024MB (2 x 512 DDR-SDRAM )
> Video Card : NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE
> Hard Disk : Western Digital WD2500JS-60MHB1 (250GB)
> DVD-Rom Drive : Hewlett-Packard DVD Writer 740b
> CD-Rom Drive : CDWRITER IDE5232
> Monitor Type : LG Electronics L1720P - 17 inches
> Network Card : NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller
> Operating System : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Media Center 5.01.2600 Service Pack 3 (32-bit)
> DirectX : Version 9.0c
<<< Mainboard >>>
> Manufacturer : HP Pavilion 061
> Mainboard : Asus NAGAMI
> Bios : Phoenix Technologies, LTD
> Chipset : nVidia nForce 410
> Physical Memory : 1024MB DDR-SDRAM
> LPC bus : Yes
> PCI Bus : Yes
> Bus PCI-Express : Yes
> USB Bus : Yes
> SMBus/i2c Bus : Yes
> Bus HyperTransport : Yes
> Bus QPI : No
> Bus CardBus : No
> Bus FireWire : Yes
<<< Processor >>>
> Processor : AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+
> Frequency : 2000MHz
> Number of Core : 2
> Support : Socket 939
> Cache L1 : 2 x 128KB
> Cache L2 : 2 x 512KB
> Voltage VID : 1.300 V
> FPU Coprocessor : Present
> Core 1 Activity : 0%
> Core 2 Activity : 0%
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