Need Help!

[MRD]

Hello,

I built a computer about a year ago, and it just recently, and suddenly, stopped working.

I woke up yesterday morning, and turned on my computer. The computer seemed to turn on normally, made all it's usual noices, however I got no response from the moniter, what so ever. It remained in powersave mode.

Powerdown, reboot, same thing. First thought: somethings wrong with the moniter; try another one. No good.

Since yesterday morning, I have tried different PSUs, Video Cards, Memory, I took out everything except the bare essentials i.e. LAN card, CD-Rom.

I replaced the motherboard, and CPU. Still same problem.

You could say I'm stumped. I have replaced every part in my case. And still get the SAME problem.

The only time I ever got a breath of hope, was early on in this fiasco, I replaced my CMOS battery, and my moniter began responding, I started seeing the bootscreen. However, (I have a dual boot) and whenever it asked me to select which OS to load, it would freeze immediatly. It would also freeze as soon as I entered BIOS.

My old specs were:
AMD XP 1700+ TBred
Iwill KK400 VIA KT666 Motherboard
Radeon 9700 Pro
768 MB Ram
Antec 400W PSU

Thanks, and please HELP!

[liljim]

Have you tried to clear the CMOS?

[MRD]

When you take the battery in and out, or replace it, it automaticly clears CMOS, no?

With the new motherboard, I did try to clear CMOS, I may have done it wrong, but then again : You power down, switch the jumper, wait, put it back, and power back on. Not too much to screw up I don't think.

I may have made a little progress though.

I used a totally different computer, and only tried to boot it up using my harddrive. It would get as far as Verifing DMI Pool Data, then power down, and restart. I tried to boot into safe mode, but got a blue screen that said, run CHKDSK, and a virus scan. I ran CHKDSK, and everything seemed normal, I'm running a virus scan right now (2 actually).

However, even if I find a virus, could a virus really cause the problems I'm having?

[brad]