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... which is a good thing since my main system is refusing to boot.
I get lights and fans but no display. Power cycling sometimes makes the CPU fan go WHIRL but other than that no change.
*sigh*
So I spent about 10 minutes swapping my (now secondary) media system and I'm back online again. It's got half the ram, an inferior graphics card but it works.
I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue and probably not the disk drives. I'll have to wait until tonight to do a dead diagnosis.
Life goes on.
-m
I get lights and fans but no display. Power cycling sometimes makes the CPU fan go WHIRL but other than that no change.
*sigh*
So I spent about 10 minutes swapping my (now secondary) media system and I'm back online again. It's got half the ram, an inferior graphics card but it works.
I'm pretty sure it's a hardware issue and probably not the disk drives. I'll have to wait until tonight to do a dead diagnosis.
Life goes on.
-m
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Sounds like a bad Motherboard, at a guess. Either something isn't plugged in right, a RAM stick worked loose, or an actual component on the board itself has failed.
and yeah, I've it happen to me a time or two. I don't think I've ever had an actually new new computer, so I've gotten used to things failing, and fixing or replacing them.
appendium: I did have a very similar failure pattern and it turned out to be a bad PSU. Once. Recommended you check that as a precaution. [mostly because the darn PSU was brand new and I spent three days chasing my tail until I tried that. If I can spare someone else that frustration so much the better.]
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Fixed? Yeah, no. I'm suspicious so I ran memtest - and it locked up. Swapped out RAM - still locked up.
It could be that the Xeon chip I upgraded to doesn't like the non-ECC ram. I need to do more research.
I've got the power supply tester out. The power supply is usually the first thing I check. I'll deal with that after work.
If it is the motherboard... well, it's a decade old. I've gotten my money's worth out of it.
-m
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Yeahh.. I'd be suspicious of that too. The Xeon chip sounds like a possibility, but only a possibility. It's looking more like pSU or dodgy capacitor on the Mo'bo. They have similar failure modes to what you're describing. Although the fact it came back to life briefly makes me think that it could just be a poor solder joint acting up. If does prove to a problem with the motherboard, you could try stripping it down and gently heating it in the oven [oven tray with a sheet of foil to protect it]. At worst, all you've done is waste a bit of time and killed an already dying board, at best, it works.