Hello all. I have a Gateway GT5032 Desktop PC running Vista Ultimate. I recently installed a program called Paragon Partition Manager. After setting it to format one of my partitions it asked me to reboot; which I did. The Partition Manger screen came up and it began to do its thing. After a minute or two I got a BSOD and the PC began to restart. It was late and I didn't feel like messing with it anymore so I held the power button until it shut down (big mistake). The next morning I pushed the power button and it started for a second and shut back down. After repeatedly pressing the power button it stayed running. Unfortunately, that's all it did. The power light came on, the cabinet fan began running and the video card fan began running, but I didn't hear any hard drive activity, no start up check, nothing on the monitor (it stayed in sleep mode) and no lights on the keyboard. After reading several posts on this forum I took out the CMOS battery for several hours, removed the memory modules, and disconnected the hard drives all with no effect. I'm starting to think I might have fried the Mobo, but I thought I'd check if anyone out there might have any suggestions before I look into replacing it. Thanks.
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