Gigabyte GA7Ixe4 not booting

[Darkan9el]

Hi all, I have a friend whose system will not boot up!

When the computer is switched on the CPU fan starts, so there is power to the board, but it does not switch the monitor on, there is intially a red light when you first press the on button but this goes out quickly. the green light stays on.

There are no beep codes coming through.

The Hdd starts you can feel the disk turning. (Maxtor 20Gb)

I know the monitor works as I have a test system, and it comes on as normal with this system.

I have also tested the AGP Graphic card in this test system and again it boots up fine.

I have tried the Graphic card from the test system (PCI) in the faulty system and it has no affect.

I have swapped the ram and again no affect.

I have tried a new Hdd (Western Digital Portege 40gb) this starts but still no affect.

The system has the latest bios (F9) and it updated fine this was done about 2 months ago.

I have removed everything but the Hdd, floppy and graphic card.

I have also tried different cables, no affect.

System spec:

Gigabyte GA7IXE4 Mobo
AMD 850 CPU
256Mb PC133 SDRAM
Siluro T400 64Mb Graphic card
Maxtor 20gb HDD
Belina Monitor
panasonic floppy

Not connected:
Creative labs DVD-ROM
HP 9210 scsi CDRW
Sound blaster live SoundCard
Adaptec 2904 SCSI card

best regards Lee :confused: [list=1]
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[mjc]

Is this a new build or had it previously been working?

Have you tried the power supply on the test machine?

[Budfred]

If it isn't the power supply, it seems likely that either the motherboard or CPU is toasty...

I would try it out of the case on a nonconductive surface (like cardboard) to make sure it isn't a short. If still no go, if you have a compatible system to try, I would try the CPU in that board and/or that CPU in this board.

[Darkan9el]

Yup motherboard is fried along with CPU, I suspect a power surge, but who knows anyway I told him it was time to upgrade lol!

Computers + Money = £0.00

thanks for the help

best regards lee :D

[Sylvander]

Hello Darkan9el

You could use my Diagnostic Flowcharts.
Send me a personal message requesting them and giving an e-mail address to send them to.
Here's the route they take me through in your case.

START UP TEST
1. Is the PC dead? No.
2. Did POST appear to run? No.
3. Were there any audible beeps? No.
4. The Power-On Self-Test failed to complete. [NO POST]

NO POST
1. Are the PSU voltages correct? Check them if you can. If they are not you may have a faulty PSU. Assuming they ARE ok then:
2. Disconnect all peripherals and system adaptor cards except the keyboard and video card/monitor.
3. Does the POST now run? If it doesn’t then your system board [or something on it (video card, CPU, memory)] is faulty. If it does run then:
4. Re-connect the floppy disk drive and run advanced diagnostic software from a floppy disk. Get “TuffTest-Lite” from http://www.tufftest.com/free.htm, or better if you can. This is simple and basic.
5. Does the system board pass? If not then it is faulty. If it does pass then:
6. Switch of and re-connect ONE peripheral/adaptor card.
7. Does POST now run? If it doesn’t this last device connected is faulty and should be disconnected. If it does run the device should be tested using the diagnostics and if it fails is faulty and should be disconnected. If it passes it's ok and should be included.
8. Repeat from step 6 until all devices are tested, all faulty are excluded and all working included, then re-test the system.