This exact thing happened to me with an Asus P3V4X in May.  I shut it down
working fine at night, and the next morning it would not even do the POST
screen.  Nothing happened from shutdown to boot the next morning.  It just
died on startup.  The only reason I could come up with is that the power
supply surged when I started it.  It did not fry the RAM or the CPU, or
anything else.  All the drives worked, the power LED on the mobo lit up, the
LED's on the front of the case lit up, but it was fried.  It had worked fine
for 5 months, and then it died.  I cannot give you a definitive answer as to
why.


After about a week my new system just wouldn't boot, after running
perfectly the night before.
It was not even beeping on startup.

I took it back to the shop I bought it from and the ascertained it was a
dead motherboard!

Now the new system has only ever been run through a new ups that I bought
with the system.  With reference to the load on the ups, I was running both
of my systems  through the ups (it has four outlets. ie 2 monitors and 2
computers).The second system is a 450 AMD. with 94 meg RAM, I was gaming on
the old system (starcraft, ;not that heavy on resources) and windows
trouble shooting on the new system.

The shop requested the ups back for testing and have been unable to fault
it, they are currently replacing the mainboard.

I guess the question here is: why did it die? did I just get a dud, what
other causes for a dead mobo except a power spike which the ups would have
stopped?

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