vaio wrote:
> Hi,
> my computer doesn't start, to be precise it turns on, I hear the fans
> but monitor hang on in stand bye.
> I can't hear the RAM count; no sound from internal speaker.
> I don't have installed other hardware, computer was working correctly,
> without problems, all of this has happened suddenly.
>
> I have an asus motherboard with 800 mhz cpu, 512 RAM (2x256), video card
> AGP asus, ethernet card, controller scsi, sound card c-media, three hard
> disks (one of them is scsi).
>
> I have tried two different monitors, another video card (PCI), I have
> unplugged drives and cards, cleared the CMOS, but no results.
> I have also tried with other RAM, without solving the problem.
>
> Can you help me,
> thank you and sorry for my english, I am italian.

If it is a Slot 1 system, remove and reseat the processor.
Sometimes the connector on Slot 1 can be flaky.

Other than that, you can try another power supply, or try another
motherboard. It sounds like you've done a good job so far,
of trying to debug it.

Paul