Re: [H] PC won't boot/bad caps

[FORC5]

bad caps on mb's in my pile
Abit
Asus
MSI
DFI
ECS
Compaq
Soyo
Epox
I do not believe any body is immune and I often wonder about other electronic gear like TV's etc.
Power supplies I have not kept a pile on
fp


At 01:19 PM 8/17/2005, Francisco Tapia Poked the stick with:

Sounds like power to me, I've had PCs come to me where the fans all worked, but the system woudln't even post, some had issues w/ the cd/dvd drives not ejecting... I would plug them into known good PSs and that was the problem everytime.  I had a 300w Antec on my Epox w/ Amd2000xp, after 2 1/2 years after powering it off it would not boot up again, I swapped out the PS and all was well.  EpoX generally do not have the bad caps problem the generally plauges ECS (IME).



On 8/17/05, FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

first response for me, had a ecs k7s5a pro this week with 6 bad caps, also check in the power supply for bad caps.

fp

At 08:06 AM 8/17/2005, Mark Dodge Poked the stick with:

Check the caps on the MB to see if any are bulging.

Mark Dodge

MD Computers

602-421-0329

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[ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Jerry Jones

Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:47 AM

To: The Hardware List

Subject: [H] PC won't boot

Built my wife's PC about a year ago. Epox MB with an Athlon, 2 sticks of

256MB RAM, 2 hard drives, DVD drive, and a Radeon 9800SE vid card. Recently

when she turns on the PC it usually will not boot and just makes a sound

that is kind of an alternating high then low beep. Hitting the reset button

will usually cause it to then boot.

Yesterday I pulled off the cover of the case to check out the problem. After

checking that the video and memory were seated and all cables were

connected, I plugged it back in and tried to turn it on.When power is turned

on the case fans spin, the cpu and video card fans also are spinning but

nothing else happens. It does not display anything on the monitor. Hitting

reset does nothing at all. Everything appears to be getting power, but the

boot process just does not seem to be starting. Oddly, the DVD drive will

not open it's tray when the button is pushed.

I have tried swapping video cards with a known working one from my kids pc

and get the same thing. I have swapped the power connecters on the hard

drives and the DVD drive. I have tried disconnecting each hard drive

individually and then both hard drives. I have tried booting with just one

stick of memory. At this point I am at a loss for what might be wrong. Could

the CPU be dead? The motherboard? Or does it sound like a power supply

problem?

Jerry

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