st wrote:
This could easily be th power supply. Do you have another case handy?
Not one with a sufficient PS. :(
The next thing I would do is to take out every card and hard drive, and see if the thing beeps. If it does, add the video card back in (make sure no onboard devices conflict!), then the first hard drive, and so-on. If you have no joy, then I say it's power supply, CPU, mother board, in that order. You will simply have to swap them out to find out.
That looks like the order of the day. Alas, I probably won't get to it until later this weekend.
Also, are you sure that your power supply can handle your setup? Removing the drives might help find out. If you are drawing too many amps from the power supply, I would expect the sort of behaviour that you are experiencing. It seems like 500W is par for the course these days.
The Sonata II comes with a 450W PS, it should be good enough for this system.
Also, don't tell me that you turned the power on EVEN FOR A SECOND without a greased and powered cpu cooler attached.
No fear, the CPU is covered by a massive Zalman fan. Power hasn't remained on for more than a second anyway.
I'll take out drives etc., will see what happens next. Best, dp
