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My beloved desktop PC at home suddenly gave up. There's a power. Monitor and all fans (processor, video card, chassis) are RUNNING. But it doesn't boot up. No response on my monitor. I bought it last 6/17/2009 and is now out of warranty.

I remove one by one to test but doesn't FIXED the problem.

1. Try other monitor. - failed
2. I'm using 2 sticks of RAM (1gb & 2gb), tried each one. - failed
3. Remove my video card and tried the on-board video card. - failed
4. Return back my video card. - failed
5. Remove may hard disk then return it. - failed
6. Remove all power connectors then return it. - failed
7. Remove processor then return it. - failed
*** Can't remove the processor from its heat sink
8. Remove all parts, then remove all the dust, then assemble it again. - failed

I do not know exactly the problem, but my suspects are mainboard and processor.
Right now, it has power but cannot boot up. No keyboard lights.

I'm using my laptop now here in office. Any advise before I sent it to the shop this Saturday where I bought it?

Specs...
Hardware Platform:
AMD AM2+

Software Platform:
Microsoft Windows

Operating System:
Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 2

Processor:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 7750+
2.70 GHz True Dual-Core Design
3.0 MB Total L2+L3 Cache
Socket AM2+ 95W

Mainboard:
MSI K9N6PGM2-V Micro-ATX
Realtek ALC888 Flexible 7.1-channel audio
AMD Cool'n'Quiet

Chipset:
NVIDIA GeForce MCP61 (P/S/V) + nForce 430

Memory:
Kingston 3 GB DDR2 800 (total)
DIMM0 - 2 GB PC2-6400
DIMM1 - 1 GB PC2-6400

Hard Disk Drive:
Samsung 500GB 7200rpm SATA 3Gb/s

Optical Drive:
Liteon 52x32x52x16x COMBO

Video Card:
Sparkle GeFORCE 9400GT (PCI-E 2.0) 1GB
DDR2+HDTV+CRT+DVI-I+HDCP

Graphics Engine:
NVIDIA GeForce 9400 GT Graphics EngineQuote

Remove processor then return it. - failed
*** Can't remove the processor from its heat sink

Why not?

Have you inspected the motherboard for any burst or leaking capacitors?*** Can't remove the processor from its heat sink

If you mean Carnot because it is stuck to it, then this is most likey the corse, it happend to me and was due to the manufactures not put enougth (forgot name) cooling STUFF between chip and heat sink. everything you said that is happening to your PC was also happeng to mine, the only difference is mine was under warranty still I think you should change the CMOS (CR2032) battery. It could be dead by now.Quote from: JJ 3000 on February 07, 2011, 03:56:39 AM
Why not?
because there's a compound thingy (like a dried grey glue) that binds the two

Quote from: JJ 3000 on February 07, 2011, 03:56:39 AM
Have you inspected the motherboard for any burst or leaking capacitors?
yes, so far I haven't seen any damage in capacitors Quote from: experimentaltech on February 07, 2011, 09:20:50 AM
I think you should change the CMOS (CR2032) battery. It could be dead by now.
hmmm... I think I have an extra CMOS battery at home. Let me try tonight.1. I tried to replace CMOS battery but it still doesn't work.
2. I tried again to remove the processor from the board. Upon removing the heat sink, the processor also removed - it was stuck-up with heat sink. This time I forcefully removed processor from its heat sink. Then return it back again. -- Successful and my desktop PC boot up in Windows.

I'm happy now 'cause I didn't bring it to a tech shop -- means no expenses. Hehe. =) THANKS to all who shared their opinions and suggestions. =)I hope you cleaned it thoroughly and re-applied Thermal compound....


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