For the love of God, HELP ME

[The Baron]

Well. Using my box this afternoon, everything was fine. Was looking at a web page, then.

Screen goes black (no signal), HD LED comes on, stays on. I wait for a Sign of some sort--nothing comes. I hit reset. Nothing. I hold down the power button. It goes off. I turn it on, mobo doesn't post. Fans come on, drives spin up, screen is still no signally and board does not post.

I think the mobo magically fried itself.

Specs:

MSI 6380LE, KT266 board (it hurts. it hurts.)
1.4 TBird
512 DDR 2100
WD 80 gig drive
2 optical drives (a Toshiba DVD and Lite-On CDRW)
Antec TrueBlue 480W (the only other possibility besides the mobo)

And if the board is dead, **** this 1.4--3000+s are $341 at Newegg. And maybe they have 9800 Pros in stock too. :D

And ****, I have the worst luck in the world. I had a paper to type. Heh.

[The Baron]

CMOS clear DID NOT WORK. Going to try it one more time to make sure, but it did absolutely the same thing afterwards.

[Riptide]

Must've been sunspots... ;)

[LORD-eX-Bu]

if its dead sell me the hd:naughty: :p

[PsychoSy]

86 that MSI board now before you waste too much time.

Chances are, the chip for voltage regulation control took a dirtnap. :)

[LORD-eX-Bu]

hey psycho, you think that could happen with other msi boards?:eek:

[The Baron]

YOU GET NO HD!

Actually, the HD has a ton of stuff that I need by Monday, so I'll probably be putting it in this box and praying that 2 WinXP bootloaders doesn't wreak havoc...

[LORD-eX-Bu]

rofl, aww shucks! sucks to you! I hope your children are born hairy!:p

[The Baron]

The B rejoices... KT333 rocks so much socks (compared to KT266, socks rock socks).

The improvement in my MX700 from not having to use a powered hub alone made it worth the $70...

[PsychoSy]

Originally posted by [eNv]-LORD-eX-Bu
hey psycho, you think that could happen with other msi boards?:eek:

Yeppers but it depends on the board and when it was manufactured. A select few MSI boards roughly 2-3 years ago often died within 6 months to a year due to a specific voltage regulator chip. The most common MSI board that used it was the original K7T Pro 2 (MS-6330 Family). However, MSI woke the hell up when they made the successor of those boards - the K7T 266 family - which doesn't use the same chip.

I had one of the K7T Pro 2A boards and, even though the specific chip (located right by the ATX connector) would get pretty hot, mine's been going strong. Recently dug it of the closet and tested it - works fine! What saved mine was probably for the fact that I used an old 486 fan on the chipset heatsink. The air from that (combined the the natural airflow throughout the case) most likely kept that chip from blowing on me! :p

[LORD-eX-Bu]

time to mount the old chipset fan on again:D

[omghi2u]

How did you know that the board does not POST if the screen does not go on?

[The Baron]

No beep.

[omghi2u]

Could be PSU trouble, I had a similar problem before. Try replacing with another one.

[The Baron]

Nope, new board fixed everything.