Hi guys. Okay, before I go off and start googling this on my work time, I thought I would post this lamentable story of woe here, as I know some of you are knowledgable in the ways of hardware, and might recognise the symptoms - and perhaps be able to offer an insight into what has gone awry (even though I will probably just have to take it in to shop for testing and repairs anyway). So this is the long and the short of it:
I was playing bf2 yesterday, but was having a crappy time so I thought I would disconnect from the server. I took my usb joystick and went to put it away beside my tower - and literally the second I put the thing down (which is why I include this otherwise pointless opening), my computer froze and started emitting some very weird high pitched noises from the speakers. Not Blue Sceen of Death frozen, or black sceen, or CTD - I mean showing the game sceen, but completely frozen, and with this weird high pitched modulating crap coming from the speakers.
Alt+Tab doesn't work, neither does ALT+CTRL+DEL. In fact, the freaking RESET BUTTON ON THE TOWER doesn't work. Neither does holding in the power button. I freak out, and switch it off at the power point.
Since then, if I turn the power on, the fans and LEDs start up, but there is no activity of any kind. No signal to the monitor, no crunchy computer think-y noises, nothing.
(In fact, I had a similar problem with an old celery 400 ages ago - I found that if I just pressed down on the VGA and/or RAM to make sure it was in properly, it would then boot fine. I tried this, but no go. Actually, I removed every peripheral and cord to check for any obvious damage - couldn't see any- and reinserted everything firmly and correctly, but it stays the same).
Everything has worked fine up until this point. The last change to the system configuration I made was in December, when I put in the two sticks of RAM and a new soundcard. I am thinking this is my motherboard crapping itself? Any way to know if this is the case, and/or if it has taken anything else (i.e. vga or hdd) down with it?
I have:
P4 3GHZ (socket 775, model 530J)
Gigabyte GA-8IPE775-G, 800fsb. AGPx8
4x512mb DDR400 (Dual Channel)
MSI Radeon 9550 (256 MB RAM)
Antec tru-power 430W psu
160GB Western Digital SATA HDD
I was playing bf2 yesterday, but was having a crappy time so I thought I would disconnect from the server. I took my usb joystick and went to put it away beside my tower - and literally the second I put the thing down (which is why I include this otherwise pointless opening), my computer froze and started emitting some very weird high pitched noises from the speakers. Not Blue Sceen of Death frozen, or black sceen, or CTD - I mean showing the game sceen, but completely frozen, and with this weird high pitched modulating crap coming from the speakers.
Alt+Tab doesn't work, neither does ALT+CTRL+DEL. In fact, the freaking RESET BUTTON ON THE TOWER doesn't work. Neither does holding in the power button. I freak out, and switch it off at the power point.
Since then, if I turn the power on, the fans and LEDs start up, but there is no activity of any kind. No signal to the monitor, no crunchy computer think-y noises, nothing.
(In fact, I had a similar problem with an old celery 400 ages ago - I found that if I just pressed down on the VGA and/or RAM to make sure it was in properly, it would then boot fine. I tried this, but no go. Actually, I removed every peripheral and cord to check for any obvious damage - couldn't see any- and reinserted everything firmly and correctly, but it stays the same).
Everything has worked fine up until this point. The last change to the system configuration I made was in December, when I put in the two sticks of RAM and a new soundcard. I am thinking this is my motherboard crapping itself? Any way to know if this is the case, and/or if it has taken anything else (i.e. vga or hdd) down with it?
I have:
P4 3GHZ (socket 775, model 530J)
Gigabyte GA-8IPE775-G, 800fsb. AGPx8
4x512mb DDR400 (Dual Channel)
MSI Radeon 9550 (256 MB RAM)
Antec tru-power 430W psu
160GB Western Digital SATA HDD
