For the past 30 hours, my board has been working fine. As a matter of fact, I did not encounter a single problem when installing the board and configuring it. It has been 100% hassle free up until about one and a half hours ago.
Just before it conked out on me, I plugged in a good ol' IDE hard drive so that I can install Windows 2000 Professional. I pulled the plug on my Raptor so that BIOS would only see the IDE drive. I reset BIOS so that everything was set to AUTO - no overclocking whatsoever. WIN2K installed fine. I then rebooted the computer so that I can defrag the drive. Fans are blowing full blast, LED lights on the board are on, but I wasn't getting a signal to my screen. The diagnostic LEDs only have three lights on. I tried reseating the graphics card, reseating the CPU, reseating the RAM, and swapping the RAM with other modules. Nothing. I've reset the CMOS, pulled the CMOS battery, consumed a few Heinekens. Nothing.
I was wondering if anyone else has encountered the same problem - or if anyone has a clue as to what has caused this to happen.
Components used were:
- AMD Athlon64 3500+ Newcastle
- DFI LanParty UT Ultra-D
- OCZ PC-3200 Gold VX (2x512MB)
- XFX GeFORCE 6600 256MB
- OCZ Powerstream 520W
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