no beep no video.....yup another one of those

[charlieheman]

setup....barebones is all that ive tried, so it's all ill list here atm.

geforce6100sm-m mobo
ddr2 800 2g stick ram
athalon 64x2 4100 (am2)
atm was trying to use on board video.....did try a friends pci video card a few time though i do not remember what brand it was.

I installed this motherboard on Friday night the 11th of January. At the time I was using a 430w PSU, along with my amd processor, and 2gig stick of ddr2 800 ram. My original problem was a continuous beeping from the motherboard. When looking up the bios beepcodes on-line i found that this many times is due to an issue with the cpu and/or the memory. I went and bought another stick of ram at Best Buy as well as another cpu. I swapped all parts for each other, still the same beeping. I swapped out all parts and re-checked all connections multiple times. Still the same beeping.

After a few hours of trying this multiple different times I decided to try it with another 500w PSU that I had at my house. After swapping everything out, the motherboard will now start and spin the fans, hard drive spins, but I get no video, and no beep code. I tried swapping out all parts in various different ways and am still coming up with the same thing. No video no beep. I tried to force a beep code by removing the ram and starting the computer again. Still....no beep no video.

I was wondering if I should now consider this motherboard dead and move on to another or is there something I am missing, maybe something I didn't try.

It is also important to note that I did try clearing CMOS, and that did not work.

Any information you may have would be a great help.

Thank you.

[Sylvander]

1. Connect only...
PSU, mobo, CPU+heatsink+fan, internal speaker
Ideally the mobo should be out of the case on a non-conducting surface.
To make the PSU power-on, short the pins on the mobo for the on-switch.

2. If lucky, the POST will run, test, warn of the failure of the 1st RAM test by generating beeps.
If the internal speaker functions it should sound the beeps.

3. If unlucky, the POST doesn't run. [No LED's blinking][Is the hardware "dead"? Or is there power getting to the board?]
Hence no beeps even if the speaker is functional.
In this case the few items of hardware connected must be considered suspect.

[Mini-Me]

Sounds like motherboard to me, as you have tried new RAM and CPU, which both should have been known-to-be-good, and the system still refuses to POST. I would be marking the board as "Suspect" and putting it on the "To-do" pile for some tinkering with at a later date.

...or you could just bin it now!