Re: [Nolug] Hardware gurus on the northshore

Chris,
    If the north shore had the same kind of electrical surges we did
in the last few days, maybe the CMOS got messed up. If you pull out
everything but the video & keyboard, can you get into a setup screen?
If so, check to see that it didn't change the kind of memory it's
looking for, i.e. parity or non-parity.
Dave Prentice
prentice@instruction.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Krunk <krunkalot@hotpop.com>
To: nolug@joeykelly.net <nolug@joeykelly.net>
Date: Thursday, May 13, 2004 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: [Nolug] Hardware gurus on the northshore

>Sounds like the CPU or the Motherboard to me. Otherwise you would get
a
>beep code....particularly with bad memory. I don't think you'd get a
>beep code if you pulled the CPU out due to the processor check
occurring
>further up in the POST sequence (like 2 or 3 I think).
>
>The best thing to do is find someone with a POST card (or buy one
>yourself) and see at which point it's locking (I don't have one of
>these, but you can find them for ~35 iirc) If you want to take a
>"replace and see" approach, I'd go with the motherboard first unless
>you've been doing something that would endanger the CPU like severe
>overclocking.......I've never seen CPU just "go out." Not that it
>doesn't happen, but it's rare. In the vast majority of cases where
your
>getting no beep codes it's the motherboard.
>
>Cheers,
>
>James
>
>On Thu, 2004-05-13 at 07:30, Christoph Boget wrote:
>> I'm wondering if there are any hardware gurus on the
>> northshore (Slidell, Mandeville, Hammond, etc)?
>> Last night, my primary PC died. However, I don't
>> know enough about hardware to determine the cause. I
>> was wondering if there was a kind soul out there that
>> would be willing to take a quick look and see if that
>> person can determine what, if anything, I'd need to
>> replace.
>>
>> Here's the situation:
>>
>> I have an EPoX 8RDA+ motherboard, Athlon 2100+ CPU,
>> 400W PSU, Radeon 9600 Pro, 3 HDs, 1 CD-RW, 1 DVD-RW,
>> 1 Floppy and 2 controller cards (1 for the 3rd HD,
>> 1 for the DVD-RW) installed.
>>
>> When I turn the computer on, the LED on the MB shows
>> as FF; the LED doesn't change at all. I can see and
>> hear the 2 cooling fans, the heat sink fan and the
>> PSU fan all running. However, I don't hear that HDs
>> spinning. I also don't hear the click of the floppy
>> drive as the PC seeks for a boot floppy.
>>
>> I've unplugged all the drives (3 HDs, CD-RW, DVD-RW)
>> to see if that made a difference; perhaps they were
>> causing too much of a load? Well, no change. I then
>> removed the 2 controller cards as well. No difference.
>> I reseated the CPU, video card and RAM. Still, no
>> difference. I removed the CPU then the RAM then both
>> at the same time and turned the PC on. IIRC, this
>> should have caused the MB to beep indicating that a
>> vital component was missing. No beeps.
>>
>> So now I'm down to purchasing a video card, PSU, CPU
>> and MB in turn to see if any of those fix the problem;
>> I don't have a spare MB or CPU that I can just switch
>> out. I just don't know enough to be able to determine
>> if any one of the above is faulty based on the
>> symptoms. This is a significant expense (not to
>> mention amount of time) I'm hoping I can avoid by
>> getting someone significantly more experienced to take
>> a quick look.
>>
>> This PC is only a little over a year old. I ordered
>> each part in turn over time and built it myself
>> last March. I've not put any new hardware into it
>> since the DVD-RW last June. I've also not installed
>> any new software since installing a game in early
>> April. I leave the PC on 24/7 and rarely need to
>> reboot it. This PC (along with 2 other and 2
>> monitors) are plugged into a 200W (I believe it is)
>> UPS and are using the surge protected sockets. The
>> UPS is plugged into the wall. Neither of the other
>> PCs have experienced any problems.
>>
>> So I'm wondering if there is a kind hearted hardware
>> guru on the northshore that would be willing to take
>> a quick look at my PC and see if it can be easily
>> determined what component might need to be replaced?
>>
>> thnx,
>> Chris
>>
>>
>>
>>
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