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raymond <ojay1@plastica.com> wrote in message
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> please help me diagnose this problem..............

> picked up this machine and it was not posting....the hard disk lite
> was locked on........i swapped out the hard disk initially and it
> posted straight away...dead hard disk i thought.......so i ran it
> overnight with diagnostics testing the hard disk to see if it would
> blitz it befeore i bought a new one....next day it was still going ok
> so i bought a new drive.....i ran xp setup and it formatted 33% of the
> drive and it stalled.....i restarted the system and it didn't post again....

> Gigabyte &VT600-1394 mainboard / AMD XP2500 CPU / 512 MB DDR
> there is no post.............when switching on, the hard disk LED
> comes on the DVD CDRW combo  drive light flashes intermittantly and
> there is a few weak pops from the speaker, [nothing that could be
> interpreted as a beep code] the keyboard indicator is lit but there
> are no flashes as per the normal boot sequence...... and that is
> all...psu/cpu fans are spinning and the ram led is lit.....PSU
> voltages are all reading correct levels....the motherboard is on an
> antistatic bed with a 3rd hard drive connected to the power only, [the
> hard disk is spinning ok], a pci video card and keyboard.......the
> minimum config possible.... i have also swapped out the ram, video
> card and PSU with no improvement.......it is down to the mobo or cpu i
> guess unless i have missed something

Yes, looks like a dud motherboard. Can you
see any visibly deformed or leaky caps ?