On 17 Jan 02, at 7:17, Lee Roberts wrote: > > Nope. No beeps whatsover. No video display. Nothing. The CPU fan runs > though and I hear some noise from the drives as I normally do. The D-panel > diagnostic lights are all red. The manual says that combo of colors > indicates a bad CPU but when I talked to MSI tech support last week the > tech said if I don't hear any beeps it's a bad mobo. But, 2 in a row? If > so, I think I'll return the board and go with some other vendor. >
I had exactly this happen to me with an MSI mobo in the K7T series (can't remember the number, but it was in a box I bought last April, so it was a recent version). The machine worked OK for several months -- although with occasional weirdnesses that I never did really explain, then one day everything froze and when I tried to reboot I saw these same symtoms. I sent the box back to Affordable Computers (the vendor I got it from) and they replaced the board with a "K7T Turbo-R Limited Edition" (or so it says on the manual). It's been in operation solidly for the past couple of months now, and all seems OK. The guy at tech support mentioned a failure rate or "1 or 2 percent" on the original board. He seemed to regard that as good; frankly, that sounds abysmal to me, but I know nothing about the failure rates of botherboards other than to know that in 30 years of computing this was the first mobo I'd ever had go bad on me. Certainly if I plonked down more that a hundred dollars for an electronic item, I would not expect the probability of failure to be more than a tiny fraction of one percent. Your plan of trying a different board vendor sounds pretty reasonable to me. Doc Evans -------------------------------------------------------------- Phone: +1 303 494 0394 Mobile: +1 720 839 8462 Fax: +1 781 240 0527 --------------------------------------------------------------
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