[harrylt]

I Don't know if any of you can help, I hope so cos its getting really frustrating. Its quite a long story so please bare with me.
I used to have a motherboard with an AMI bios. this stopped working and was giving 8 short beeps, I read up on this and read that meant it was a graphics card problem. So i bought a new one which didnt fix it.
Since then i thought it was time for an upgrade so i have bought a new motherboard, processor and ram. the motherboard is a 754 k8 with a pheonix bios. Now it doesnt boot up, no beeps whatsoever. the fans come on and thats it. it doesnt sound like hard drives are spinning. i have tried disconnecting everything but there bare essentials but no joy. What do you think might be causing the problem?
Thank you for your time.
Harry

[Dave Hybrid]

Normally if a PC powers up but does not start the drives and post the bios screen its a CPU/Processor fault.

Reset your bios by removing the motherboard battery for a few min's and unplugging out of the mains.

This will make sure the CPU settings are not wrong in the bios.

Failing that replace the CPU.

[harrylt]

Thank you for your help, obviously not what i wanted wanted to hear. As I have pretty much replaced everything i am worried about buying a new cpu incase its not that therefore being a complete waste of money.
At the moment i guess it must be either mobo, cpu or do you think there is any chance of it being a power issue? my psu not putting out enough power. i was always under the impression a power supply would just stop working not just cause problems like this?
thanks all

[Dave Hybrid]

99% Its the CPU.

Definitely not the PSU.

Mobo's are normally completely dead or working so probably not that either.

Dave.