Help!
Yesturday my pc froze on me so I rebooted, now all I have is a black screen. HD and power lights come on, but just black monitor. I tried another monitor and cables and also another video card and hard drive. Looks like I have a bad MB, RAM of CPU. Any ideas how I can determine which it is? Thanks.

Any beeps? short and long?

Yank everything out except the Video card and 1 memory stick. Then Power it back on. If you get something on your screen start putting back 1 this at a time until it fails. If it doesn't come up put in a different stick of memory, if it still doesn't come up you've narrowed it down to your motherboard/processor or Video card

No beeps.
I'm pretty sure my ram has to run as a pair.(Rambus)
I tried a good vid. card.

Try checking your power supply.

does the fan hint at turning before it dies?

Watch the power supply fan at the back of the computer, reach arouns hit thee power buttong while watching the fan - see if it moves...

Power supply fan and cpu fans stay on.
I can't even get to bios, just black screen.

Usually if the CPU has fried, there'd be some beeps. Wonder if maybe your MB is toasted?

I think I'm going for a new mb and ram off NewEgg.com. Thanks for the help guys.

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I think I'm going with this.

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That MB compatible with the CPU you currently have?

And Ram seems expensive, are you a high-end user?

Originally posted by jugstah
That MB compatible with the CPU you currently have?

And Ram seems expensive, are you a high-end user?

My cpu is an Intel 2.4Ghz, 533Mhz FSB
I do o.c. it to play games at times.
I've used that ram in a few pc's I built for friends and haven't had a prob., what do u suggest?

Hopefully in your case, it's not the CPU that's fried, since you mention you OC your PC. But that's a good start. And OCing shortens the life of a CPU and components, but I'm sure you already know that if you know how to OC.

And the RAM's fine, just a matter of preference.

Good luck!

I tried the cpu in another pc and it's good. I don't oc too much for too long. I may upgrade to 800 FSB cpu while I'm at it.

Go for it. :-)

let me know how you make out.