OT: hardware

[Technomage]

well, barring psu or ram sticks. if nothing else, the motherboard b0rked 
then. it does happen (given
how fragile that electronics really are, I am surprised it doesn't 
happen more often)

Mark Jarvis wrote:
> Good points. Either could have been the problem and I was hoping that one of 
> them was--much simpler/cheaper to fix. I didn't mention in the original post, 
> but I did pull the memory sticks one at a time (it had two 512MB sticks). 
> Barring a sudden failure of both, that wasn't the problem. I also wondered about 
> a PSU failure and checked voltages--they were good, even if the color coding on 
> the wires was weird. AAMOF it's running the new mobo just fine.
>
> Technomage wrote:
> > I noticed one thing missing in that check: the ram. some of the newer 
> > machines won't post or even report
> > an error code anymore (series of beeps or blinking lights). have you 
> > checked to see if the ram is still good?
> > was the beep a short single or a long single? was there more than one?
> >
> > also, the simplest thing that can go wrong is usually a PSU failure (and 
> > depending on how it goes it *can*
> > tank the motherboard or the cpu or any peripherals you have connected).
> >
> >
> > Mark Jarvis wrote:
>