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No Post, No Display, No Fun
I've been viewing these forums for quite a while and have solved quite a few issues I've had before just from reading other threads, so now it's my turn to start one I suppose.
I'd originally thought about posting this is the "crashes" section, but feel it is definitely more of a hardware problem.
I recently bought a new 500gb Caviar Black WD drive and installed it rather painlessly. I'm not even sure the drive has anything to do with my problem (I dont think it does, but who knows). After about 24 hours I'm surfing the web, listening to some mp3's, when I get a BSOD. It was very unexpected and I didn't have time to look at the error # or much of anything. So, I rebooted and when Windows 7 loads, the "let Windows search for a solution" window came up and I clicked "yes" and as soon as I did this, I got the BSOD again. Now, whenever I turn the power on, I get no display, but all my case fans, vid card fan, CPU fans, PSU fans all come on, I can hear my hard drives quietly spinning (no clicking, etc) but I get no post beeps, and nothing appears on my screen.
I've tested my monitor on an extremely old machine I had lying around, and it works fine. I've removed both hard drives just to see if I could get a post from the computer with no luck. I've swapped memory, memory slots, tried different memory with no luck either. I had been using a 300w power supply, and thought maybe it had finally bit the dust but was still putting out enough power to start my fans and stuff, so I bought a brand new 350w Diablotek psu, but am still having all the same problems, and I went through and disconnected and reconnected everything I'd previously done with the other psu. My monitor led stays orange when I power the computer on, whereas it normally switches to blue once the computer starts to boot. I've disconnected my vid card and plugged the monitor into the onboard video as well and still the same. I've also removed the CMOS battery and left it out for 20 mins or so and put it back in, and have also tried a new battery, with no change. I removed my CPU fan and heatsink and inspected the processor and everything looked normal. The motherboard looks fine from visual inspection, no leaking transistors or anything of the sort.
I guess it's also worth noting that everything worked flawlessly before I installed the new hard drive and fresh copy of Windows 7. But like I said above, I even tried taking the new drive out and just using the old one with no luck. I have no real way of testing my processor/mobo since I don't have another system capable of switching components in and out.
I've always bought my own components and installed them myself with no problems, although I'm far from being a professional.
Very frustrating to say the least, I'm guessing its my motherboard or processor. This is a last ditch effort before I go spend cash I dont really have on a new mobo/cpu.
Thanks in advance.