Unknown mobo issue??

Adam

Here's one for the real hardcore techies out there, cos i'm no idiot but I'm stumped!

Its an old problem I'm just coming back to now. Basically, about six months ago I was doing some dvd converting with some Cucusoft app and wandered off to let it do its things, and when I came back a couple of hours later my pc had died! :eek:

When I say died, the atx was still fanning away, the monitor was still on, but the harddrives had stopped spinning and when I tried to turn it off with the power button I couldn't even do that! I had to crawl in behind her and switch it off from there.

So when I tried to reboot nothing happened. The atx turns on, but beyond that there's NOTHING DOING!

Now, after tinkering with it again for the last half an hour I've discovered that something on the motherboard is stopping the hard drive from spinning up, as if I turn it on with the hard drive connected and after a few seconds plug out the IDE cable (terrible practice i know!) the hard drive starts spinning

I really want to get this fixed, its wrecking my head!

On a side note, when the pc crashed originally, whatever actually occurred murdered the hard drive in it at the time, that hard drive wont boot in any system, it just hangs in IDE detection.

Thanks for reading guys!

Cuddlesworth

My cpu went before and took out a harddrive with it. Besides that, a part had gone and now you need to find and replace it.