problems beyond my knowledge

[kaigishin]

hello everyone,
im having quite an issue here that i cant find a solution to on the web.

i woke up this morning to my floppy drive clicking and no signal to the monitor. i shut it all down and removed the floppy to see if that would fix things. i also tried putting another one in, but all to no avail.

the power will still turn on but no bios, no error beeps, just fans and thats about it. i am still getting power to the mobo.

it has been running fine for quite a while now and my only recent hardware install was a SB audigy zs.

so i am now in the process of leaving my mobo batter out and trying to reset it. but i doubt thats going to fix it. if anyone has some knowledge thay can thow to me about this i would be most appreciative. i just cant figure this out

i am running:
asus p4p800 modo
512 ddr
P4 3.2G ht processor
ati radeon 9800 pro
SB audigy ZS

 

[kaigishin]

id alos like to add, i just finished trying the battery and that did not work. also the HDD light remains on constantly.

i have been reading that all tihs may chalk up to a bad mobo or processor, but im not sure how that would have happened, i dont have it OC'ed and when it went bad i was sleeping, so i was'nt putting it under any load at the time

 

[killians45]

reseat the vid card. no post/no video usually = vid card problem. Remove it, inspect the contacts, blow in them if need be and reseat the card firmly. No contacts showing.

 

[ekÆsine]

see what happens when you take out the sound card and boot it up.

 

[Apokalipse]

take out everything except for the bare minimum (mobo, CPU, RAM, video) and see if it boots
if nothing seems to work, it is prolly a bad board; maybe the board has too much dust, or maybe it overheated because the heatsink(s) and/or fan(s) had too much dust, or maybe the fan just stopped working?

 

[killians45]

All good ideas, but I'd start with the vid card and then continue. Your not getting any video, so I ASSUME not even the bios info screen. So then there is no video source. So I would assume that the video card is at fault. It's the easiest route. Then continue one at a time on each, you can remove the vid card and see if you at LEAST get a post error. Aside from that, leave IN the vid card or you wont ever post, just get a dbl beep error (on rare occasions different beep code but almost every system I've worked on it's like the 2 beep code is universal or something for no video). If its installed you may not get a post error because the bios sees it, but there is not a proper connection.