I am assuming you're not even getting a POST screen at startup. If it were the CPU, RAM, video card, you'd get a POST screen and a lot of beeps. I'd say it's a good bet your mobo is gone. I had a mobo that would light up, spin the drives, and do everything yours does, but when I took it in, it was an ASUS P3V4X still under warranty, they said the mobo was history. The retailer refused to send it to ASUS, and tried to get me to accept as a replacement something junky. Ultimately, I got my money back from the retailer. I'd say you should start thinking about a new mobo.
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>I have a Pentium III 933 system that stopped booting this morning. It
>powers up and all of the peripherals (hard drives, CD-ROMs, DVD player,
>etc) spin up and go through their power-on cycles. The CPU fan is
>running. The power and hard drive lights come on. The LED on the
>motherboard (Abit SA-6R) is on. In fact, it seems to be perfectly normal
>in that I can turn it on and off with the power button, but it won't
>actually boot. No beeps, no warnings, nothing.
>
>What led up to this over the past couple of days is that the computer
>would spontaneously reboot. It didn't matter whether or not there was a
>lot of hard drive activity, cpu activity or if it was just sitting
>there. Sometimes it would reboot after three or four hours, sometimes
>within a few minutes.
>
>So far, I've tried removing all of the cards except the video card. I've
>tried a different video card. I've replaced the power supply. I've
>unplugged every peripheral except for video. I've tried different
>memory. I've cleared the CMOS. About the only thing that I haven't done
>is replace the motherboard and CPU (I don't have any extras of those).
>
>I'm afraid that it's either the board or the CPU. At this point, I'm not
>sure which it could be, but I'd sure welcome any suggestions.
>
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