I think there is something wrong with my PC, but I can't figure out what it could be.
I haven't used this PC for about a year. When I built my current PC I stripped this one of the DVD and CD Roms, the floppy drive and a wireless NIC card. Based I this I assume the MB and video card are properly connected.
I got a CD R/RW, a DVD Rom and a floppy drive and plugged them in the PC. Now, it randomly decides to somewhat work. I push power and only the PS fan and my case fan run. Other times the Chip and Video card fans will start up too, but I won't hear the beep of the motherboard and I don't get any display.
The third option is it appears to start up, I get the motherboard screen acknowledgement and can get into the BIOS. I set the thing to boot from the CD and restart with windows. I am able to start setting up windows and format the HD.
The PC wants to restart, it does, and I get "Windows is Analyzing your hardware configuration" then the screen goes blank, the CPU fan and case fan turn off; but the PS and Video card fans stay on! Cntl Alt Del doesn't work, the restart and power buttons on the case don't work either.
I can't figure out what's wrong with this thing. I cleared the CMOS a few times. I checked my jumpers: R/RW is master, DVD is slave. HD is on IDE1. I unplugged everything and reconnected. I did notice the number 1 pin on my 20 pin PS to MB plug is scorched, but I don't know how long that's been like that.
SPECS:
-MB: Biostar M7NCD
-Video: GeForce fx 5200 AGP8X 128 bit
-HD: Western Digital 80Gig
-CD R/RW
-DVD Rom
-Standard Floppy drive
-PS: 350W
Any ideas?
