Computer Appears Dead

[Warsaw]

Ok, so my computer took a dump today, and I'm posting this from my old old computer (Athlon XP 1700+ :lol:).

So the symptoms are as follows:
-Once I turn the computer off, I have to turn the PSU off, then back on before I can power up again.
-Sometimes when it turns on, only the HDD light is active
-Sometimes when it turns on, only the power light is active
-It freezes during the motherboard splash screen sometimes if I have it enabled.
-It freezes sometimes during POST
-If I get past POST, it gives me a black screen with a flickering underscore in the top left corner (typing cursor).
-If I try to get to the BIOS, it will give me the same black screen sometimes.
-I can't ever get to Windows
-I get a different POST Code error on the little mainboard display every time (and it always refers to "Reserved")
-All of the status LEDs on the mainboard are lit, meaning that the CPU, DIMMs, and Chipset are OK.

Sounds like a PSU problem to me. What do you guys think?

System specs are in my profile.

[Atty]

PSU could be it or your motherboard could have shit itself.

[Hotrod]

It could be a motherboard problem, since it's the piece that attached everything together. Maybe data isn't going in between hardware as it should be.

[Warsaw]

Oh, it also says the floppy is failing, which I highly doubt because it doesn't say that on a consistent basis.

I've considered the motherboard, but if that shit itself, why does it work at all in the first place? Can it even POST if the motherboard is bad?

[Atty]

Motherboards don't stop working because they went bad. They do weird things like you are experiencing now.

RMA that sucker.

[Warsaw]

I would, except it's not made anymore, and I haven't seen any [reasonably priced] Socket 939 motherboards on the market for a long time now :(. Don't have enough money for a new mainboard, CPU, and PSU either.

I guess I'll try another PSU. If that doesn't work, I'll just have to continue on this one until I have enough for a new computer.

Thanks guys.

[ExAm]

Try clearing the CMOS?

[Warsaw]

Did that. Three times. No effect. :(

[ExAm]

Damn.

[Amit]

Warsaw (Pact) donations? Ha lol people won't want to contribute.

[Timo]

Do you have a speaker you can plug in to your mobo so you hear any beep codes if they do turn up?

[kenney001]

my laptop did something very very similar. It turns out the heat sink was bent up a little off the cpu causing it to overheat on startup and give me a new error or freeze in different places every time.

This sounds like that, cept its a desktop so probably isnt the case.

[Warsaw]

Do you have a speaker you can plug in to your mobo so you hear any beep codes if they do turn up?

No, I don't. It has a built in speaker though, as well as the POST code indicator.