Total Crash during Windows Update.

Try unplugging everything except your h/d and MOBO and see if anything happens. How old is the board anyway?

Maybe you already did this, but check the board for popped capicators.

Do you have a friend who would let you try your h/d in his computer, just to see if thats still working?
Good luck.

 

I did disconnect everything other then the MB. Then shut down and connected one HD. Still nothing other then the Fan running. The Power light turns on but nothing from the HD activity light. I will connect the HD to my other PC tonight.

How do you check for popped capicators?

It appears that there is no power getting to some parts of the MB. But after installing a new PSU with not positive results other then a bad MD, I am lost.

Thanks.

 

How old is the board anyway?

Approx. 1.5 years.

 

Let me update what happened last night after installing the new PSU. There was only one thing that changed. With the new PSU after turning the power off the Power Light would Flash approx. every 2 seconds about 8-10 times then go out.

 

If i'm not mistaken a popped capacitor will look swollen on top (rounded) instead of flat.
It's hard to be 100 percent accurate without seeing these things, but I think you probably have a dead or almost dead MOBO.

Do you have a local computer shop you can take the computer to, so they can test the MOBO?
I don;t want to say for sure your MOBO is dead, would hate to see you go buy one and find out thats not the issue.
Good Luck

 

I still say check your ram. My computer had identical symptoms. The cpu fan would run but the computer wouldn't enter into the bios and I didn't have any video signal at all. Computers do weird things when components fail I would try everything.

 

A failed POST can be caused by ANY component in the PC, and I've seen it happen for pretty much any component too. Video card, CPU, Power supply, Hard disk, DVD drive, RAM, Motherboard, and even network card. The only things I haven't seen cause an issue have been Sound cards and electromechanical things such as case fans.