Re: aklug Digest V3 #207

I had a printer die in the exact same way. Old Epson dot matrix
monster. Very sad. Anyway.....

We never figured out how to fix it. As near as we could figure out, the
"pop" was something arcing. It too would make fan noise, but never do
anything else to acknowledge that it was on.

Replacing the power supply helped, but the question is what's keeping it
from posting. It may be your mother board, but it could also be memory,
cpu, or any card that was damaged so that it keeps the PCI bus from
starting up. If you have another box you can check out each part one at
a time and at least figure out what is still working.

Did your internal speaker work before the incident? If not, then it
very well could be cpu or ram instead of the mother board.

Also, when you say lights and fans come on, do your Hard Disks spin up?

>Subject: computer wont boot
>From: Damien Hull <dhull@digitaloverload.net>
>Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 12:14:38 -0800
>
>I'm trying to find out if my motherboard just died on me. Here's what
>happened.
>
>1. Turned on the computer and herd a "pop". Then nothing
>2. Checked everything and still nothing. No lights telling me there was
>power to the board.
>3. Got and installed new power supply. The box says its for a P4 system
>which is what I have.
>4. When I flip the power switch in the back I get lights and the CPU fan
>starts. Nothing else happens.
>
>Pleas tell me there is a fix for this? I don't want to get a new
>motherboard.
>
>
>
>
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