Jeeze, John, your way ahead of most of us on this one.  You have done
everything you could to narrow it down to either the motherboard, RAM, or
the CPU.  If it's RAM or CPU, you SHOULD get some sort of beep (I've never
seen a system that DIDN'T beep with a bad card).  A lot of times it depends
on the motherboard.  99% of the time you will get beeps with bad RAM.  I've
gotten beeps with a bad CPU about 25% of the time, your mileage may vary.

However, at this point it sounds to me most "likely" that the motherboard is
bad.  Your next step is the perfectly logical one.  Does the wife have the
same kind of RAM as your system?  If so, put yours in her motherboard too
(keeping a bad board on for too long might ruin other components if they are
not history already, so you don't want to test by putting her known good
components in your system).  Be prepared to discover that more than one
component is fried.  From what is sounds like, there may have been a pretty
powerful jolt of electricity sent through the system.

Good luck!

Kyle Elmblade
Distinct Computer Solutions
Sales - Upgrades - Training - Consulting
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From: ".JPD" <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, August 08, 2002 11:47 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Dead PC-No Beeps or Post


Ihave a P-II,233 mhz,4.3 gig,96meg,ATI expert vid card,SB sound card,56k win
modem, winME O/S. Unit is just over 3 years old and had ran great. Put PS in
about 2 years ago, otherwise no problems.While cruising the net last night
I clicked to go to a new page and the monitor blinked and the computer
appeared to be doing a restart. Then the monitor blinked a couple of
times,blank screen-no video, then heard a pop and smelled a burning
component.Have been elect tech for 40 yr and know what a burning component
smells like. Shut it down, pulled and inspected PS. Found 2 badly burnt
resistors, and several shorted transistors  and/or voltage regulators.
Purchased and installed new PS after inspecting mobo for signs of damage.
All looked okay. Fired up but no post, no beeps.HD and pwr lights stay
lit,no momentary blinks in floppy,cdrom,cdrw etc as usually seen during
post.. Disconnected everything except mobo, cpu,ps,1 stick of memory,no
chg,still no beeps.Am I overlooking something? Wifes computer has dual
socket and manual says will run this cpu. Will try that in am. Any other
suggestions what else I might try. Thanks.
John Dinges

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