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).> wrote:
On 8/17/05, FORC5 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- 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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- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- [ 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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