I bought a barebones kit with
http://support.intel.com/support/motherboards/desktop/d101ggc/
this mobo. I got everything connected and it was running fine for a couple of hours (long enough to install Windows, network it with my other desktop, and play a little Lineage II). Then it just died. The monitor lost signal (amber power light) and that was that. The computer won’t boot back up (when I hit power on the PSU, the LED on the mobo comes on, but after I hit the soft switch on the front, no POST beeps, although the LEDs on the keyboard blink once, and the CPU fan comes on). I’ve tested the monitor, and it’s dead now (not surprising, it’s an older CRT). But when I connect a working monitor, still no signal. If I set the BIOS jumpers to ‘Recovery’ and boot up, the (working) monitor gets signal, but the BIOS shows an error and I just get continuous beeps. Any other jumper settings, and I get nothing. I’ve wiggled the RAM around, reseated the chip and heatsink, removed the CMOS battery for 10 minutes and put it back in. I’ve unhooked the HDD and CDROM (so it’s a bare boot – just mobo, processor, cpu fan, RAM and power supply) and still nothing. Any other ideas before I go through the long and irritating process of trying to exchange the mobo?