I believe I fried my board, but if anyone has suggestions for alternative possibilities I'd love to hear them. Basically I've got these two USB ports on the front of my case toward the bottom that I use from time to time to plug in a camera or cell phone or whatever. The metal divider between the two fell off a couple days ago, and I had been using those ports sparingly here and there. A USB plug could slide in and be connected, but if it got bumped or anything I'd heard the usual connect/disconnect noise in Windows 7 indicating that it lost the USB link temporarily. Anyway, yesterday I went to plug something into that and may have somehow touched the USB plug against more than one edge of the metal on those USB slots. I was restarting the computer at the time but when this happened it just abruptly shut down altogether. I tried to turn it back on but to no avail. The CPU and case fans all turn on and the LED on the motherboard stays solid green. The DVD drive made this clicking noise like it wanted to spin but couldn't, so I removed the DVD and that stopped. Now that DVD drive's green light just stays on solid. The video card fan would not spin. No POST. I didn't initially realize the vid card fan wasn't spinning so I got a new PSU and tossed it in, but to no avail. Then I realized the vid card fan wasn't on and thought that might have fried, but that's less than a year old as well. I took a video card from my 2nd machine and threw it in there - no luck (that vid card wouldn't power on either). So I took my vid card and put it in the 2nd machine and it works fine and boots right up. So now I'm left with: 1) vid cards from PC1 and PC2 don't work in PC1 2) vid cards from PC1 and PC2 work fine on PC2 Did I fry the motherboard somehow? Is it possible to short out the board to the point that its power subsystem doesn't work anymore, and more specifically the PCI-E port? I know PSU and RAM can cause problems getting the computer to POST, however neither should cause the video card to be seemingly dead. In those instances I would expect the video card and its fan to power on normally even though the computer still wouldn't POST due to the PSU or RAM. Any ideas?
fan spinning varies from motherboard to motherboard (some spin before post, some wait). try unplugging it and removing you CMOS battery. Then go elsewhere for several minutes. come back and re-insert the battery and plug it. then try to turn it on. if it works, all bios settings will be lost. you'll need to re-inter the time and date. also, unplug the front usb ports, they may still be shorting out. good luck.
i did the same thing on my asus m2n-sli deluxe couldn't get it going untill i unplugged my front panel wire from mobo on the downside i believe this is what fried my sm bus controller pc still works but if i make any ram configuration changes she won't post i only get beeps
wait, it beeps? that is a form of post code, what kind of beeping is it doing, and what motherboard is it?
