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 <
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 peripherals,
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