Could be a bad motherboard.  It sounds like you've re seated everything and
swapped out pretty much everything but the motherboard.

This is going to sound ridiculous but try this, and I'm not kidding ...
unplug the computer from the surge protector and plug it directly into the
wall.

Also you may want to try disconnecting any case fans that plug directly
into the motherboard ... I don't know if that will work but I read one
poster that said it might help .... crazy problems require crazy answers.

Also, your monitor is good right?

Another possibility ... a faulty power switch on your case.  Can you try a
different case?

Also, if you power on the motherboard outside of the case can you fix it
that way?  Perhaps you've got metal touching somewhere on the MB and it's
shorting out.

Please write back and tell me if plugging into the wall helped at all.

Bill Nussbaumer


t 09:02 PM 12/14/00 -0600, you wrote:
>Just put together a new system useing the ASUS A7V mother board. without any
>card exceppt the v-card. I get the system coming on for 5 sec and shutting
>off....nothing to the monitor but the fans run for 5 sec... I have changed
>V-card and the memory and the cpu chip and the power supply but still the
>same thing...also.. I get a 2 tone beep if the cpu chip is out but no beep
>if the mem is out ,,and of course no single good beep on the boot up.
>help
>Fred E. Caldwell
>

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