Are you sure it's not the disk drive?

Try booting from a live CD and see if that works.
 On Apr 21, 2014 10:43 PM, "AZ Pete" <plug@cactusfamily.com> 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 peripheral
> s, 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
>
>
>
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