[Loafkin]

I seem to be having some problems with my Gateway GT5032. Yesterday, all of a sudden it wouldn't boot up. When I hit the power button, the fans fire up, the HDD led lights up, and I can hear start-up noises from the HD and the optical drives. However, that's where it stops. The monitor never gets any signal, and there's no beep from the computer after POST, it just sits there with the fans running. Yesterday my first thought was that it was the power supply. So I went and picked up a new Antec unit, installed it, and voila, it worked! Computer started up just fine and I surfed the internet. Well I turned it off yesterday and when I went to turn it back on today, it's doing the same thing! I obviously haven't narrowed down this problem yet, so I'm looking for suggestions on where else to check.

 

[Loafkin]

well, I tried re-seating the memory, the pci cards, and all power connections and still no luck. Please, does anyone have some suggestions?

 

[Clumbsy_Mage]

Remove the CMOS battery for 30 minutes if it happens again and see if that solves it.

 

[bigbear]

Remove the CMOS battery for 30 minutes if it happens again and see if that solves it.

30mins 30secs is more than enough time

 

[Loafkin]

Remove the CMOS battery for 30 minutes if it happens again and see if that solves it.

Tried that before, and just tried it again now... no dice, the thing still won't boot up.

 

[davehc]

I cannot help but want to follow this thread. I had exactly the same problem two weeks ago. I had the facility to swap and change just about everything. Nothing worked. In the end I took it to an "expert" and the diagnosis was a burned out motherboard. I bought a new motherboard with a cabinet and, of course, another power unit installed. No problems. But if someone here comes up with a better solution to your problem it will make me feel a lot poorer!!

 

[Loafkin]

Yeah, I'm kind of dreading the possibility it's the motherboard. It's a fairly new computer, and still under warantee from Gateway. The only problem is that I'll have to send it away to get warantee work done on it, and I don't really have the luxury of being without this computer for weeks on end. I'm just hoping it's something simpler to replace, or maybe just a loose connection somewhere... it did work the one time after initially replacing the PSU.

 

[Clumbsy_Mage]

30mins 30secs is more than enough time

Okay then

 

[Loafkin]

Well, I tried a few more things. I disconnected all the PCI cards and rebooted without them... no luck. I disconnected the optical drives... no luck, disconnected the hard drive, no luck... and then removed the memory.... NO LUCK. The computer reacts exactly the same now no matter what's connected. Just the case fans and front status lights come on, nothing else, and it just won't boot. Am I looking at a fried mobo?

 

[Clumbsy_Mage]

Tried turning it on without absolutely anything plugged in except the speaker cable and the power connector to see if you get any beeps?

 

[brite750]

Well, I tried a few more things. I disconnected all the PCI cards and rebooted without them... no luck. I disconnected the optical drives... no luck, disconnected the hard drive, no luck... and then removed the memory.... NO LUCK. The computer reacts exactly the same now no matter what's connected. Just the case fans and front status lights come on, nothing else, and it just won't boot. Am I looking at a fried mobo?

power supply i would suspect first, even if it lights up one of the rails may be off spec, not letting pc post

 

[brite750]

never mind read the first post, now it probably is a bad mb, cpuz are pretty tough, are you sure cpu fan is running and that cpu heatsink is on solidly?

 

[bigbear]

Yeah, I'm kind of dreading the possibility it's the motherboard. It's a fairly new computer, and still under warantee from Gateway. The only problem is that I'll have to send it away to get warantee work done on it, and I don't really have the luxury of being without this computer for weeks on end. I'm just hoping it's something simpler to replace, or maybe just a loose connection somewhere... it did work the one time after initially replacing the PSU.

Well you have probably voided your warranty anyway by opening the case and installing the psu.
Are you getting anything on the monitor?
Could be a problem with the graphics card

 

[Loafkin]

Fan and heatsink are just fine... the fan is the only thing in the computer that'll turn on. If it is the motherboard I'm screwed because it's an AMD BTX mobo... and I think that gateway has the only ones in existance. I wish they could just send me one directly, rather than me having to send the pc to them and wait at least a month for them to replace it.

 

[Loafkin]

Well you have probably voided your warranty anyway by opening the case and installing the psu.
Are you getting anything on the monitor?
Could be a problem with the graphics card

nothing on the monitor... and it's on board graphics so graphics card problem is the same as a mobo problem.

 

[brite750]

Fan and heatsink are just fine... the fan is the only thing in the computer that'll turn on. If it is the motherboard I'm screwed because it's an AMD BTX mobo... and I think that gateway has the only ones in existance. I wish they could just send me one directly, rather than me having to send the pc to them and wait at least a month for them to replace it.

i dont suppose an ATX mb would fit or you have one lieing around that you could run out of the case to make sure the MB is the problem

 

[brite750]

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/searchtools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2108759&Tab=1&NoMapp=0

holy crap these are totally different than ATX, why???, it looks like they basically mirrored an ATX setup

 

[bigbear]

nothing on the monitor... and it's on board graphics so graphics card problem is the same as a mobo problem.

Well maybe, you could always try a pci graphics card.
Its really the only way of testing to see if that is the problem.
BTW have you confirmed that the monitor is ok? can you try another one?

 

[davehc]

Oh. There's a though Loafkin. How about trying a plug in Graphics card? Any old cheapy you can borrow would do.

 

[blonde288]

nothing on the monitor... and it's on board graphics so graphics card problem is the same as a mobo problem.

Well, each person's problems can be unique, however it is the identical symptoms to a Gateway I worked on a few weeks back. I too stripped it down to RAM, CPU and a new working PSU... the CPU fan ran, but that's as far as it went. Never did find out if it was the cpu or the mobo, but all the other parts worked fine in the build I replaced it with.

holy crap these are totally different than ATX, why???, it looks like they basically mirrored an ATX setup

Yes, brite, ya shoulda heard me swear'in when I went to reuse the Gateway case with a new, standard ATX mobo !!!