Motherboard died?

[Brian Cluff]

On 09/02/2010 10:18 PM, Joseph Sinclair wrote:
> You might also try plugging in a spare Hard Drive.  I had a similar problem a couple years ago with an old(er) Dell system and the MB simply refused to POST unless the Drive was functional;
> A drive swap ended up bringing it back (but not before I wasted a bunch of time trying everything else).

I've seen that as well, you might want to just try unplugging everything 
except the power and see if it comes up.  If it does, plug stuff in one 
at a time until it stops POSTing.

You might even want to go so far as to pull out ALL the ram and then see 
if it even give you some error beeps.

It's probably a good bet that the motherboard is bad if you've done all 
that and it still doesn't come up.

Brian Cluff

> John wrote:
>> Thanks Brian, the speaker is hooked up and I get absolutely nothing. No sounds or lights.
>>
>> --- On Thu, 9/2/10, Brian Cluff<brian at snaptek.com>  wrote:
>>
>> From: Brian Cluff<brian at snaptek.com>
>> Subject: Re: Motherboard died?
>> To: "Main PLUG discussion list"<plug-discuss at lists.plug.phoenix.az.us>
>> Date: Thursday, September 2, 2010, 8:46 PM
>>
>> It could still be your power supply.� Just because it turns on doesn't mean that it's supplying the correct, or even all the different voltages it needs to.
>>
>> If you can put a spare power supply on it, or hook your current power supply to a proper tester, that would at least eliminate that from the possible problems.
>>
>> The fact that the motherboard doesn't tell the power supply to turn on, but the power supply can be turned on does kinda point to the motherboard.
>>
>> You should, but not always, be getting at least some beeps if the motherboard is good but RAM and/or CPU are a problem... Is your PC speaker hooked up so that you can hear them?
>>
>> Brian Cluff
>>
>> On 09/02/2010 06:10 PM, John wrote:
>>> I came home and my Mythbuntu computer was off. I hit the power button
>>> and nothing happened: no sounds, no lights, zip. I figured my power
>>> supply unit (PSU) took a dive. I unplugged the main connector from the
>>> motherboard (MB) and did the paper clip test where you put a paper clip
>>> in the green and black sockets and when I did this the PSU fan spun. It
>>> also turned on the pc fan but the CPU fan wasn't spinning (it's
>>> connected to the MB). I figured it was the CPU fan that took a dive. I
>>> then unplugged the PC fan and plugged the CPU fan into this socket and
>>> did the paper clip again and the CPU fan started spinning. This now
>>> leads me to believe the MB has taken a dive. The MB has a lifetime
>>> warranty so I may send it in but if it isn't the MB then I get charged.
>>> Anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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