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Miscellaneous => Technical Support => Topic started by: Lead Head on 25 March 2006, 04:54
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I gotta old AXP 1700, it was running good till about 2 weeks ago, and then it just stopped dead. No post. No beep codes. No nothing. I tried different CPUs and video cards, do you have any idea what could be wrong?
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Switch the PSU's. If that doesn't work, short the MB power pins with a flathead screwdriver for about one second.
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it powers up, but thats it...
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Hmmmm ... I'm not too good with hardware but I know that if the MB is fucked up it beeps ... if you don't hear a beep it's probably not the MB. It might be the power supply ... how exactly does it power up ... did you test voltages ?
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Like I stated, I tried two differnt PSUs. It powers up, HDs spin up etc... But just tapping to power button wont shut it down, i have to hold it for 5 sec like it was frozen. I tried the HD in another machine and FC4 booted right up
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Maybe it's RAM ?
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MOBO is dead. BIOS failure by th sounds of it. It's the BIOPS that makes the beeps so if the BIOS is currupted, no beeps :).
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Gah. I hope not cause, i was gonna use it for a rosetta cruncher.
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This might help. (http://arstechnica.com/guides/tweaks/troubleshooting.ars)
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I have tried all of that except running the mobo out of the case. Meh, I don't have acesss to the machine right now, so ill try tomorow