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