*facepalm*

[Iczer]

Yeah, so this afternoon (an hour before the Seahawks home game opener to boot) there was a pretty nasty power outage (apparently a good chunk of the town was out as well) thanks partly to the wind we got. But once it came back up, I went down to look at the news online and found that my system doesn't want to play nicey nice anymore.

Upon hitting the power button, everything spins up like it should, except I noticed the fan noise was far lower than it normally is. Pulling the side off, every fan was working fine and dandy, and I could hear the HDDs doing their thing as well, but still no picture on the monitor. With this, there's two things that could be wrong right off the bat: video card and MoBo.

If it's the MoBo, it should be under warranty still so long as Asus sells them still since it's under a year old, as is the CPU. The video card's SOL in that department though.

Any ideas? I don't have a spare card to test with, and no other AM3 CPU or board to work with either. The system was on when the power went out, but it's connected to a surge protector so it shouldn't have done a damn thing to it in that sense...

[GMtm]

Take all the cards out, unplug all SATA and Power, reseat the RAM and CPU (wear ESD protection) and then just reconnect just the essentials (CPU, RAM & VGA) and see if it boots. If not and its not beeping then it more or less proves the motherboards out.

You would be amazed how many times my £20 surge protector has stopped this happening to me.

[HD0087]

Was the monitor/tv that was hooked into the PC also protected? or any other devices like a modem? I've managed to kill one HDMI port in my telly because of mere static electricity left in the cable when I unplugged it from my PC.

[GMtm]

ESD is really awful mate. Some people have the worst working standards imaginable and never have a problem with it, on the other hand some people actually will take all the necessary precautions and one little slip-up will cause a shit-load of damage.

I took out a motherboard last year when testing a Quadro board from some CUDA rendering in 3DSMax 2011 and I had already done it half a dozen times that day with ESD strap, etc. On this last attempt I was running late so didnt discharge myself in any way and dived into the case to swap the card back to my 8800GTX when I felt the smallest fuzzy feeling in my finger and knew instantly the board was fried. Luckily...

A). I manage an IT helpdesk, so got one of my monkeys to phone Dell and get it repaired and...
B). The motherboard still had 2 weeks left on its warranty! Mwahahhahaa! When the engineer turned up he also brought a replacement 8800GTX GPU so I ended up with 8800GTX SLI!

Result!

[HD0087]

Lucky bastard!

[Iczer]

Was the monitor/tv that was hooked into the PC also protected? or any other devices like a modem? I've managed to kill one HDMI port in my telly because of mere static electricity left in the cable when I unplugged it from my PC.

In regards to this, I don't have a TV hooked up to it. However, the monitor, modem, router, and everything else that was plugged into the protector are all working still.

And now that I think about it, I don't recall hearing any POST beeps at all when I started the system...

[Slaymate]

The fans and HDD are +12v components. The power supply also generates -12v, 5v, 3.3v and a 5vsb. So, just because a few fans are spinning it doesn't mean the power supply is good.

[GMtm]

The fans and HDD are +12v components. The power supply also generates -12v, 5v, 3.3v and a 5vsb. So, just because a few fans are spinning it doesn't mean the power supply is good.

Thats a valid point. How are you with a multimeter and probes iczer?

[Iczer]

pretty good, i'll check that as well later tomorrow (it's late now since I have to cook dinner shortly). Ironically I just bought a new PSU for my dad's computer since that doesn't turn on at all right now...

[Iczer]

And it gets better... I unplugged everything from the motherboard except video, CPU, and RAM like suggested to listen for a POST, and it actually spouted one out.

Kind of.

It beeped one short beep, and about a second and a half later there was another short beep right before the system turned itself off. And to boot it won't power up at all now.

Just an fyi, the board is an Asus M4A77T/USB3. I've been googling, but i haven't found any POST beep codes that sound even remotely like this one.