Any Ideas on what might cause my computer to hang before
even the BIOS screen every time I turn it on? When I
powered up my box thismorning, It started to fire up, I
heared the CDROM and Hard Drives start to whirr, and then
the computer just hangs there... No bios screen, no beeps
no nothing...

The "power good" light on the motherboard is on, all the
fans are working, etc... just no nothing past the initial
drive warm up, and nothing ever comes on the screen.

Could I have fried my cpu? Does anyone know what component
failrue(s) might cause this kind of outcome? I was messing
around with some.. well "unsavory" programs last night, is
it possible that some malicious code erased my bios?

My mobo is an asus P4G8X, P4 3.06 CPU, Promise Tx2000 raid
arrary if that helps....

try re-seating your CPU, carefull with static though.
Sometimes I have found this has cured it. I had a similar
problem which was the heat sink really did get stuck to
the chip and warped it a little but enought to lift
connectors.
If this doesnt help, try another CPU - arrrghhh i know !
>-----Original Message-----
>Any Ideas on what might cause my computer to hang before
>even the BIOS screen every time I turn it on? When I
>powered up my box thismorning, It started to fire up, I
>heared the CDROM and Hard Drives start to whirr, and
then
>the computer just hangs there... No bios screen, no
beeps
>no nothing...
>
>The "power good" light on the motherboard is on, all the
>fans are working, etc... just no nothing past the
initial
>drive warm up, and nothing ever comes on the screen.
>
>Could I have fried my cpu? Does anyone know what
component
>failrue(s) might cause this kind of outcome? I was
messing
>around with some.. well "unsavory" programs last night,
is
>it possible that some malicious code erased my bios?
>
>My mobo is an asus P4G8X, P4 3.06 CPU, Promise Tx2000
raid
>arrary if that helps....
>
>.
>

I tried reseating the CPU but nothin happened.. still the
same... Would a busted CPU cause this kind of result? If
the CPU is fried will the bios even load, or just sit
there like mine is doing?


>-----Original Message-----
>try re-seating your CPU, carefull with static though.
>Sometimes I have found this has cured it. I had a similar
>problem which was the heat sink really did get stuck to
>the chip and warped it a little but enought to lift
>connectors.
>If this doesnt help, try another CPU - arrrghhh i know !
>>-----Original Message-----
>>Any Ideas on what might cause my computer to hang before
>>even the BIOS screen every time I turn it on? When I
>>powered up my box thismorning, It started to fire up, I
>>heared the CDROM and Hard Drives start to whirr, and
>then
>>the computer just hangs there... No bios screen, no
>beeps
>>no nothing...
>>
>>The "power good" light on the motherboard is on, all the
>>fans are working, etc... just no nothing past the
>initial
>>drive warm up, and nothing ever comes on the screen.
>>
>>Could I have fried my cpu? Does anyone know what
>component
>>failrue(s) might cause this kind of outcome? I was
>messing
>>around with some.. well "unsavory" programs last night,
>is
>>it possible that some malicious code erased my bios?
>>
>>My mobo is an asus P4G8X, P4 3.06 CPU, Promise Tx2000
>raid
>>arrary if that helps....
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>