Need some help troubleshooting my 1800+ XP

[Smoke]

I have posted the following in the Technical Support Forum but I thought I'd ask for some help here where I do most of my hanging about.

Power Outage crashes XP1800+ System

 

[Eltano1]

I posted some help in the wrong forum, please go and check it out.

Best regards

Eltano

 

[poopaskoopa]

What happens if you just turn it on with just mem and video connected?

 

[Crazee]

I posted a reply in there also. Basically it is the procedure we always do when a PC has been hit with a power problem.

Hope it helps.

 

[JimMc]

I try clearing CMOS first, it's the easiest. Unlikely but possible that the vid card got toasted.

 

[Smoke]

Now I am getting suspicious that it IS the motherboard. The video card would not work at all in my good system, the 1900+ XP. So I do believe it suffer a fatal blow.

I have robbed an old PCI video card out of a Dell Pentium 200 MHz. It is a Diamond S3 ViRGE 4MB but enough to at least light up the monitor I would suppose.

Replace the 1800+ XP back in the troubled computer with the above mentioned video card and now I can't get any response. When I unplug it and turn the toggle Power Switch on the Power Supply off and then back on........and then plug in the power cord, I get a momentary attempt of the CPU fan to spin and then all is silent.

I will now remove all cards except the PCI video card and see if anything happens.

Oops, sorry..........thought I was in the TS Forum.

 

[IsOs]

Looks like you've determined that the video card is dead.

Does any of your capacitor on the motherboard appeared abmormal?

I know you said you've cleared the CMOS. Can you try to dismantle the entire system? Disconnect all cards and connectors and remove the CMOS battery.

While the board is out of the case, repopulate the board with the cpu, heatsink, memory and video card. Connect the ATX power supply and try to turn it on. You'll need to short the power pins on the motherboard header with a jumper.

If it boots up, power it down and put back the battery.



Goodluck.

 

[narzy]

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