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Last week, Turned my computer off, went to bed, got up next morning
and turning by computer on, and that is when all the problems
started. No POST, no beeps, nothing on the screen. Lights are on, can
here the fans and hard drive. CD ROM and Burner lights keep blinking.
Kept turning it on and off, finally after an hour of this the screen
came to live a beep. Can anyone help me. I also keep get spontaious
restarts and freezes. I have reset the CMOS, update the BIOS, still
nothing. Yesterday I notice the my CPU, AMD K7 Duron, speed had
changed in the BIOS. I got that fixed but for how long.

Will this problem just keep going and getting worse?
Should I just get a new motherboard?

Jeannette

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"jeannette999" <jeannette999@mchsi-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
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> Last week, Turned my computer off, went to bed, got up next morning
> and turning by computer on, and that is when all the problems
> started. No POST, no beeps, nothing on the screen. Lights are on, can
> here the fans and hard drive. CD ROM and Burner lights keep blinking.
> Kept turning it on and off, finally after an hour of this the screen
> came to live a beep. Can anyone help me. I also keep get spontaious
> restarts and freezes. I have reset the CMOS, update the BIOS, still
> nothing. Yesterday I notice the my CPU, AMD K7 Duron, speed had
> changed in the BIOS. I got that fixed but for how long.
>
> Will this problem just keep going and getting worse?
> Should I just get a new motherboard?
>
> Jeannette
>
This is a general troubleshooting problem, not one specific to Elitegroup.
The problem is unlikely to fix itself and your computer may well just die
one day soon if you do not investigate.

There are many possible problems (almost certainly hardware related).

Firstly, open the case and remove RAM, video card, CPU and HSF. Remove and
reseat all connections (ATX power, IDE etc., checking nothing has come loose
or detached. Blow out all the dust, especially from the HSF and the PSU.
Reseat all components correctly and retry. No better? Try a different PSU,
at least 300w (preferably bigger). No better? Try a different stick of RAM.
No Better? Try a different CPU (never run the CPU without HSF attached). No
better? It may be a mainboard fault. Inspect the board closely for evidence
of burning or bulging capacitors, in which case you may need to replace the
board and (depending on OS) do a repair installation of the OS.

If you do not have spare components to do these tests, you will have to find
someone who has, like a repair shop! Unfortunately, buying a new mainboard
will not necessarily cure your problem because the fault may not lie with
that component. Good luck!


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Remove and reseat the ram sticks.
If more than one ram stick, use one at a time to see if one is going bad.
Replace the MB battery. Only a few dollars and easy to change.
It really sounds like a ram problem.

"jeannette999" <jeannette999@mchsi-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:4225b01f$1_5@alt.athenanews.com...
> Last week, Turned my computer off, went to bed, got up next morning
> and turning by computer on, and that is when all the problems
> started. No POST, no beeps, nothing on the screen. Lights are on, can
> here the fans and hard drive. CD ROM and Burner lights keep blinking.
> Kept turning it on and off, finally after an hour of this the screen
> came to live a beep. Can anyone help me. I also keep get spontaious
> restarts and freezes. I have reset the CMOS, update the BIOS, still
> nothing. Yesterday I notice the my CPU, AMD K7 Duron, speed had
> changed in the BIOS. I got that fixed but for how long.
>
> Will this problem just keep going and getting worse?
> Should I just get a new motherboard?
>
> Jeannette
>

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On 2 Mar 2005 07:22:55 -0500,
jeannette999@mchsi-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (jeannette999) wrote:

>Last week, Turned my computer off, went to bed, got up next morning
>and turning by computer on, and that is when all the problems
>started. No POST, no beeps, nothing on the screen. Lights are on, can
>here the fans and hard drive. CD ROM and Burner lights keep blinking.
>Kept turning it on and off, finally after an hour of this the screen
>came to live a beep. Can anyone help me. I also keep get spontaious
>restarts and freezes. I have reset the CMOS, update the BIOS, still
>nothing. Yesterday I notice the my CPU, AMD K7 Duron, speed had
>changed in the BIOS. I got that fixed but for how long.
>
>Will this problem just keep going and getting worse?
>Should I just get a new motherboard?

Yes and Yes.
Time to get a new motherboard. I suggest newegg or frys.

PJ




>
>Jeannette

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This is exactly the symptoms I had when the caps on my K7S5A went tits up.
Deal with it now as opposed to having lots of file corruptions to add to the
aggravation of doing the repair install of Windows with your new board.

Take a magnifying glass and look a the crosses on the top of your capacitors
and see if they are separating and or turning brown or leaking.



"jeannette999" <jeannette999@mchsi-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:4225b01f$1_5@alt.athenanews.com...
> Last week, Turned my computer off, went to bed, got up next morning
> and turning by computer on, and that is when all the problems
> started. No POST, no beeps, nothing on the screen. Lights are on, can
> here the fans and hard drive. CD ROM and Burner lights keep blinking.
> Kept turning it on and off, finally after an hour of this the screen
> came to live a beep. Can anyone help me. I also keep get spontaious
> restarts and freezes. I have reset the CMOS, update the BIOS, still
> nothing. Yesterday I notice the my CPU, AMD K7 Duron, speed had
> changed in the BIOS. I got that fixed but for how long.
>
> Will this problem just keep going and getting worse?
> Should I just get a new motherboard?
>
> Jeannette
>

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"jeannette999" <jeannette999@mchsi-dot-com.no-spam.invalid> wrote in message
news:4225b01f$1_5@alt.athenanews.com...
> Last week, Turned my computer off, went to bed, got up next morning
> and turning by computer on, and that is when all the problems
> started. No POST, no beeps, nothing on the screen. Lights are on, can
> here the fans and hard drive. CD ROM and Burner lights keep blinking.
> Kept turning it on and off, finally after an hour of this the screen
> came to live a beep. Can anyone help me. I also keep get spontaious
> restarts and freezes. I have reset the CMOS, update the BIOS, still
> nothing. Yesterday I notice the my CPU, AMD K7 Duron, speed had
> changed in the BIOS. I got that fixed but for how long.
>
> Will this problem just keep going and getting worse?
> Should I just get a new motherboard?
>
> Jeannette

A failing power suppy or, as Jess says, leaking capacitors can cause those
problems also.
Post back if you solve it.
Thanks.
Buffalo