RE: [TCLUG:7853] dead motherboard?

["Schoenhofen, Kelly" <KSchoenhofen@Carlson.com>]

Well, in my experience, any short will stop the cpu fans and usually the
power supply fan. As far as no beeps or nothing - speaker work? plugged into
the motherboard? I'd pull out all the cards and ram, and see if you can get
it to make a sound. It's a compaq, so there is likely going to be onboard
video & such, so if something integrated literally burned out there is a
good chance the system is a complete loss. 

That's really sad - p-pro's are still great. Excellent server cpu's.

-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Lukas [mailto:peter@math.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, August 25, 1999 8:43 AM
To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
Subject: Re: [TCLUG:7853] dead motherboard?


See if a screw is accidentally shorting the board out.  Set the mb on a
pizza box and hook up the power supply & monitor...  That should make sure
is isn't shorting out on anything metallic.

Peter Lukas

On Wed, 25 Aug 1999, Tim Wilson wrote:

> Hi everyone,
> 
> I've got an old Pentium Pro Compaq that I'm trying to resurrect. When I
> turn the computer on, the power supply and CPU fans spin, but nothing else
> happens--no beeps...nothin'. A voltmeter reveals that the power supply is
> spitting out +/-5 V and +/- 12 V. Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> -Tim
> 
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