[ale] lost a motherboard
Geoffrey
esoteric at 3times25.net
Tue Feb 3 10:45:18 EST 2004
Mike Panetta wrote:
> If you have not done it already, I would power the system up with
> nothing but the new (well, known good) video card RAM and CPU plugged
> in to the motherboard.
Tried it, no go. Replaced the cpu, video card and ram with known good,
same results....
>
> I have had cascade failures where the PSU blew taking out the
> controller on one of the HDD's such that it would hold the MB in
> reset while the IDE cable was connected. This can also occur if you
> somehow reconnected the IDE cable to the MB backwards. This is
> because one of the lines on the IDE connector is reset, and its not
> always buffered/isolated from the main reset line to the cpu/chipset
> so when it gets shorted to ground the MB stays in reset.
I'm going to try it again, just to insure I've got only those few
'parts' connected.
>
> If you have another CPU, I would also try and swap that out if you
> can do it. If the 12V portion of your PSU blew but the 5V portion
> was still alive (a very unlikely but possible occurance) your CPU fan
> could have stopped while the CPU was still running. Of course that
> depends on if the CPU stepdown regulator on the MB gets its power
> from the 5V, 3.3V or the 12V supply. I am not quite sure how they do
> it these days.
I do have another cpu, tried it, same results.
>
> Mike
>
> PS: unfortunately the KB leds blinking means nothing. It just means
> the KB got power and reset itself.
Well it does mean the kb got power and reset itself. :)
--
until later, Geoffrey
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