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Hey guys, just wanted to say thanks for the
troubleshooting suggestions. The caps looked good and moving the RAM around made
no difference. I did not have another PS lying around to even test with so I
ordered a new one from Newegg. It arrived last night and sure enough, that was
the problem.
The PC is back in business and wifey is happy
:-)
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:19
PM
Subject: Re: [H] PC won't boot
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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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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