On Tue, Jan 23, 2024 at 10:43:24AM -0500, Peter King via talk wrote: > The motherboard on the failing system is a non-UEFI Asus P6T. The CPU is an > Intel i7 950. I have 32GB of Crucial DDR3 RAM in it. The whole thing dates > from 2009/2010 or so. I'm pretty sure I replaced the motherboard at least > once already. There are four or five spinning disks of various sizes and > ages. > > A few minor updates. > > First, the problem remains the same: I never get through the POST, much less > to the BIOS. No beep codes (or beeps at all), no display, no nothing; it > just remains silent as the fans spin. > > Second, there seems to be power to the computer. The internal MB power > indicator lights up, the fans spin up, the hard drives seem to all spin up, > and the graphics card at least lights up. > > Third, I tried putting in a fresh CMOS battery. Still nothing. > > Fourth, I tried swapping the memory around in various configurations. Still > nothing. > > Next up I will see if I can find a graphics card to swap out the current one > for testing. If that makes no difference, then there are only major > components left as suspects -- the motherboard itself and the power supply > (though that seems to be working: see above). I don't have an extra power > supply, but this one seems to pass the smell test. That leaves the > motherboard. I don't really know how to test a bare motherboard. Is there > anything else I should be trying before I give up? > > (Where "giving up" means looking for another computer I can migrate > all/most/some of the existing hardware to -- maybe an old tower that has > room for lots of spinning drives.) > > Thanks for any advice!
I have in the past had a board refuse to do anything until I removed all the ram. Then it gave beep codes. I had to replace the ram. Apparently the timing/voltage of that ram was just on the edge of what the board worked with and it just decided to not work with it anymore. I have also had a board where the bios flash chip failed which fortunately was still under warranty (one of the boards that had a 5 year warranty). But that one was just completely dead at that point. Does it show anything on the screen at all? -- Len Sorensen --- Post to this mailing list [email protected] Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
