[gentoo-user] motherboard died?

[Matt Harrison]

Hi all,

A few weeks ago there was a discussion about audio interference when 
running 3d applications.

Well mine kept getting worse (it didn't to it at all a month ago) until 
I got fed up. I opened the side and (gently!) moved some of the power 
cables away from the data cables to see if that was a cause of interference.

Well I did manage to reduce the noise by moving cables around but a 
couple of minutes later the machine bombed out with a big oops that I 
can't produce now.

I didn't think it was a big problem, I thought I had just pulled an hdd 
cable a bit too hard or something.

Now however, the machine won't post or even power up. It is an Asus 
Crosshair SKT AM2 nForce 590 SLI DDR2 which has a debug display on the 
back panel.

As soon as you turn on the power to the motherboard, it displays "CPU 
INIT" which is the very first stage. Now trying to turn on the machine 
yields absolutely nothing, it just doesn't do a thing.

I have removed all additional devices, just leaving 1 hdd. I've also 
reseated the CPU, RAM and all cables.

I can't see how I could have properly killed some hardware just by 
moving a cable an inch to one side.

If anyone has any ideas I'd be so grateful, I really don't want to have 
to return parts, I should be working on stuff right now :(

Thanks

Matt