​Be sure to actually test the power supply. I've had servers that 'powered up' that didn't really. ​ -- JD Austin Voice: 480.269.4335 (480 2MY Geek) jd@twingeckos.com On Tue, Apr 22, 2014 at 6:01 AM, Stephen Partington wrote: > I have had very poor experience with the technical knowledge at fry's > electronics. Data doctors is good but pricy. > > Some things you can try is pull all components except CPU and the rest the > bios. If you get beeps your board is not 100% gone. > The add one stick ram and video. If you still get beeps try another stick > of ram. If you still get beeps but no post try an alternate graphics card > or see about testing it in another machine. > > CPU fail rates are ridiculously low but not impossible. After that go > round you can try pulling it along with everything else and give it one > more try empty and see if there is a beep code. > > Then final step would be for try an alternate power supply. I have seen > them go bad and not give the right power to the core so it comes up but > never all the way. > > Hope this helps. > > > On Monday, April 21, 2014, AZ Pete wrote: > >> Hi All, >> >> I'm having serious hardware issues with my main dev box and it is now >> completely down. >> It's a fairly high end custom system (RAID, custom cooling, etc) that I >> built myself and has been quite stable for several years. >> The box powers up and the LEDs on the motherboard light. But it never reaches >> POST. >> The M/B has an LED that displays the boot hex codes on the board as it >> goes thru POST. Nothing is being displayed. >> I've tried pulling out the video card and disconnecting all the peripher >> als, but that didn't help. >> >> I'm thinking that the motherboard may be the problem. >> I'd like to take it in for service to have it properly diagnosed. Does >> anyone know of any good hardware repair places in town? >> I was thinking of Data Doctors, but don't know if they are capable to >> handle something that is not from a major manufacturer. >> Is Fry's Electronics any good? >> >> Any help would be most appreciated. And the faster the better. :) >> >> Thanks for your help. >> Peter >> >> >> > > -- > A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from > rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. > > Stephen > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >