This is my friends computer (It's an EMachine LVMM2 board), I have never seen this problem before. He said that when he would turn on the computer, Windows XP blew loading bar would freeze up after a few seconds, and would never load up. so when he brought it over, I plugged it all in, and i got a no signal on 2 seperate monitors. fans all work when i powered it up. so i thought it was the on board video, i hooked up a agp, nothing, then a pci video card, still nothing. I pulled the cpu (AMD 2600+) and H.S, and the ram chip, put it all in another older board. it worked, swapped power supply's. still worked. then i thought that maybe the board was bad. I got a new biostar board, I pre-tested the board barebone just ram and cpu with HS. I got a signal to my monitor and went to bios.
I went ahead and put the computer all back together and then no signal and no bios. got another board, put it together a peice at a time and powered it up starting barebones. when I hooked up the hard drive it would not post and no signal on monitor. disconnected the HDD and then it was fine. I thought i had hooked it up wrong the first time, so i tried it again. Again no post. so i disconnected the HDD and tried barebones again, and now i cant get a signal or a post. this time its an ABIT board with a light on it when it gets power. fans still work and all, but no signal. i replaced the bios chip, with an updated one from ABIT, that didnt work either.
Can anybody help me solve this problem? Can a IDE HDD fry a motherboard? I cant think of how it could, but at this point, I guess anything is possible.
