Perhaps the MOBO died?

[TimboAA]

It all began when I thought that my wireless keyboard/mouse combination was acting up. I was sitting there at the computer surfing the internet, minding my own business, and all of a sudden I get that "Deviced Disconnected" sound and the little pop-up dialog box in the corner, followed by my keyboard and mouse not working. So I shut down....plug it back in...and it works...

A little while later, this happens again, and I can't get the wireless keyboard/mouse to work at all. So I dig around and find an old ps/2 keyboard/mouse and hook that up. Everything is now working just dandily. Then I'm browsing the internet, go to a new web page and then it freezes. It completely locks up and I can't do anything. Ctrl-Alt-Del does nothing. So I turn it off and then wait a minute and turn it back on. This time nothing comes up on the screen. I then look down and notice that my hdd light is on, but not my power light...."Hrm...thats odd..."

So I start to do some troubleshooting...reset the CMOS...nothing. I then start disconnecting everything that isn't necessary...still nothing. I can't get a post screen or anything. No system beeps, nothing. I've tried just about every combination of things being plugged in and different RAM sticks.

My guess is that it is the motherboard died.

Here are the essentials of the setup:

DFI LanParty UT nf3 250gb
AMD AMD Athlon XP 64 3000+ 2009MH (socket 754)
1.5gb of Kingston PC 3200 RAM


Any idea what is the equivalent of that setup now? (MB/CPU combo?) I need to get up and running again fast! Newegg is limited as far as motherboards go...especially since I need AGP and SATA. Otherwise i need a new video card.


Thanks.

 

[Tarrant64]

Do you mind letting us know what kind of power supply you have? That could also cause these problems!

I tried looking it up in your main rig but I didn't see it listed. Sorry if I overlooked it.

 

[TimboAA]

Its an antec 350w....but i tried another one...and that didn't anything either.

 

[Tarrant64]

OK! Thanks for that info. I wish there was another easier way to test the motherboard to be 100% sure.

This should be a decent cheap upgrade, and u can keep your other parts(minus the cpu).

Motherboard: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813157097
ASRock has been known to put out a good mobo here and there.

CPU: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819103561
This will give you a decent performance boost from what you're running as you'll benefit from the dual-core.

This is of course, just a cheap upgrade and right around the $200 mark.

Is this OK? I mark this stuff down as I figure you don't want to spend a lot of money, and this is a good opportunity to jump up a bit in overall performance for a relatively cheap price, allowing you to keep your AGP and DDR memory. How does that sound?