On 9/24/09 12:03 AM, Eben King wrote:
> I woke up today and the computer was off. (I'm sending this from the
> laptop.) Hit the power button and nothing, no fans, no drives, no beep.
> OK, done this before. Made sure it's getting power (yes, motherboard
> LED's on). Unplugged all PCI/PCIe cards, disconnected (and removed,
> just to make sure) both hard drives and both optical drives,
> disconnected all fans except for the CPU fan. Still nothing. What's left,
> the RAM? CPU fan? Could the CPU have spontaneously died?
>
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> -eben QebWenE01R@vTerYizUonI.nOetP http://royalty.mine.nu:81
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Take out the RAM sticks one at a time (or two at a time if they are
paired), and see if it posts... a bad RAM stick will do that every time...
Does you system have any indicator LED's? Some mboards will have a
series of green LED's on them, which indicate what the problem is (look
in your mboard's documentation).
- Scott Grizzard
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