🚀 go-pugleaf

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 14:36:47 +1000, "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com>
wrote:

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>raymond <ojay1@plastica.com> wrote in message
>news:40725f16.12335467@news-server...
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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....
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>> 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
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>Yes, looks like a dud motherboard. Can you
>see any visibly deformed or leaky caps ?
>
nothing untoward except a foreign looking discoloration or stain mark
on the main data bus just near the northbridge
tnx for input