Hello Dave, it's dead. The mother board craped out on me. I have had it since 01. I custom ordered it back then for moderate to heavy gaming. I have replaced hard drives, power supplies, video cards, ram, cd/dvd players/ burners on it since then. The only stock item left on it is the case, card reader power button and board with cpu. I have taken the hard drives and tested them in other pc and they work. replaced ribbon cables and even tried a spare agp card I had. The mother board will not send a signal to the LCD, boot the HD's or cd's The board itself has been humming or squelching for about the last six months. I knew it was coming but I have nursed this baby so long, i know her inside and out. I even tried a live linux cd boot and nothing. You can boot almost any pc without a HD even it with that. I have done it with this one many times over the years testing new OS's. She wont even give a signal at all to the monitor. Dead, dead, dead. Tell me if you ever heard of this one? that squelching noise I was telling you about. I had this thing apart checking evry component trying to find the noise while it was running. Once it gets a little warm (and all my fans are working and everything is dust free), when I would move my mouse or scroll through a web page, I would hear this noise. I thought for the longest time it was my mouse cord rubbing the desk till I traced it down. It was something in the mother board making that noise. I guess it was something breaking down in it like a resister, capacitor or something. Well, she aint making any more noise. What ever it was that was going out quit. Now I am deciding on rebuilding this one with a little newer MB/cpu or building a newer one. I stopped working on PC for people when vista came out. I think I did one, but that was it. I always tell them I sorry but I dont work on them. I'll work XP back to a 286, but dont give me vista. I hear great things about 7 and even tried it briefly on my pc but she just didn't have enough umph to run her. It seems alot better than vista but the pc couldn't take it. What I really want to do is find a good MB and cpu and rebuild mine. I have IDEE hard drives, not Sata. they have all my goodies on them. I have a very specific set up I like to run. Back in the day, agp cards was the way to go. I know they are old school now, but I would like a board that can take agp or pci express. I have a BFG gaming agp card that has a life time on it. It was one step below the very best they ever put out. It was a 6800oc. I am still Leary of 7, its to new and I want to let them get the kinks ironed out first. XP has been the best platform I have found so far in the windows world. Any suggestions would be accepted. Give me a call and we can talk.
