[PLUG] Hardware puzzle of the day - desktop won't boot

[David Fleck]

On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Wayne E. Van Loon Sr. wrote:
> Winterbeast wrote:
> > So far, it sounds like a no video condition. my idea would be to take 
> > out everything, most of which you've done,  and see if it will respond 
> > with no daughtercards, no drives, no nothing except the video card,  
> > memory, cpu. see if it will come up to bios. you might check the 
> > monitors. will the monitor work on other systems? might be an issue.
> >   
> Good thinking on the video.
> When trying to boot the suspect mother board and system, does the disk 
> drive LED flash? Can you telnet or ssh into the box? Can you ping it 
> from another machine?

Thanks for all the suggestions.  Sorry I couldn't respond earlier, but my 
access is pretty limited right now.  As for these suggestions: The monitor 
works fine with other systems.  I tried pulling out all the daughtercards 
and rebooting, no change in behavior (fans whir, no lights or other 
activity, no video, no apparent checking for drives or peripherals).

I could no more ping, ssh, or telnet to this box than I could a 
cinderblock.

At this point, the only common factor I can come up with is the CPU, so 
I'm going to take a chance on a $25.00 recycled Athlon chip and see if 
that brings the system back to life.


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David Fleck
david.fleck at mchsi.com