Unidentified Hardware Problem

[TehUser]

I'm having some trouble with some hardware.  Basically, during an installation of Norton Systemworks, it required a reboot.  The display never came back online.  I can hear the hard drive and cooling fan spin up, but nothing displays on screen.  The motherboard has no AGP slot and the video card is on-board, so I have no means of testing if that was the problem.  I tried disconnecting the drives to see if one of them was shorting something out, but that didn't appear to be the case.  Does anyone have ideas?

[Grok]

Get a $20 PCI video card and use it to see what's up.

[Adron]

Do you hear the beep? Suggest you pull everything out but the cpu, memory and internal speaker and see if you get a beep...

[shout]

Try reseting the bios.

[TehUser]

Do you hear the beep? Suggest you pull everything out but the cpu, memory and internal speaker and see if you get a beep...

There is no beeping, even when I disconnected all unnecessary items.

Try reseting the bios.

Tried that, no change.

[tA-Kane]

Sounds like your motherboard is bombed. What you can do is pour a little bit of water on your motherboard while it's running to make sure it stays cool.

I hope you have a fire extinguisher handy, btw.

[quasi-modo]

Sounds like your motherboard is bombed. What you can do is pour a little bit of water on your motherboard while it's running to make sure it stays cool.

I hope you have a fire extinguisher handy, btw.

Not neccessarily.

I would do some diagnostics with a second board if you can. Try dropping the proc and ram in another system if one is available to you and see what happens.