Robin Turner wrote:

John Richard Smith wrote:

Today I had a complete computer failure, nothing, not even a bios boot screen.


I downloaded a whole batch of emails, dealt with them, and went away leaving d4x downloading a file.


When I came back, nothing but a blank screen, I touched a key, and a mandrake boot script appears, hung at fsck, y/n , I say yes, it completes the fsck and then hangs again.Nothing further , just a blank black screen , no script at all.

Panic,

Ctrl+alt+del ineffective
alt+SysRq+B ineffective
Have to shut power off(reset buttlon ineffectual)

I power up again, and nothing but a blank black screen not even a bios boot screen, and in addition 4 red LED mobo display which manual say's

4 RED LED's = System Power On, The D-LED will hang here if processor is damaged or not installed Properly.

This suggest's that it's curtains for my processor, AMD Athlon Palamino, but before I condem it and go rushing off to replace it I thought I had better ask first if there is anything I should do to test it first.

Any suggestions welcomed, as this is my first processor failure.



It does sound like your processor could be dead, but it could also be a mobo or graphic card problem. Could even be something as simple as a loose connection.


Have you tried re-flashing the BIOS?

Sir Robin



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I cann't even get into bios, that is the problem. By flash I guess you mean reset the bios and make it redetect ?

John





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