- Nov 28, 2004
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One of my better computers is down. It is a A64 3200+, with 512 Mbyte RAM and a HDD and DVD-reader.
Worked OK late last night.
This morning just dead. When restarted, it shows the BOIS-messages OK, you can see all in the BIOS. The HDD is present, DVD-drive is present, all seems OK to me. You can go into the BOIS and change the boot-order and such stuff. The comp is not OC'ed, has had no problems at all.
But it won't boot: not from the HDD, not from the DVD-drive (with e.g. the Win-XP-installations CD). It won't boot from a memory-stick either - but I am not so shure if it ever has done that (I have a linux-distribution on a 512 MByte -memorystick).
I know the following:
The graphics-card works
The power supply works well enough.
The keyboard works.
If the HDD was broken then the comp should boot from the WinXP-CD-rom.
If the DVD-drive was broken it should boot from the HDD.
If memory was so bad it would not boot I should get beeps from the computer(?). Hmm is that correct? And the BIOS should report something ...
My suspition is that it is the Mobo is broken.
Any other ideas?
I'll report back when I know more - I just do not have the time to fix this before tonight (it is sunday morning just now - and the sun is bright, 28 degrees C (= 82.4 degrees F) so it will be a hot day today - I expect some 34 - 36 degrees C (= 90 - 93 degrees F) which is quite hot considering my geographical location (just 130 miles south of the polar circle ...) The kids want to the beach (that will be a killer - more than 5 people/50 yards wink.gif), picnic, water, a nice breeze ...
Worked OK late last night.
This morning just dead. When restarted, it shows the BOIS-messages OK, you can see all in the BIOS. The HDD is present, DVD-drive is present, all seems OK to me. You can go into the BOIS and change the boot-order and such stuff. The comp is not OC'ed, has had no problems at all.
But it won't boot: not from the HDD, not from the DVD-drive (with e.g. the Win-XP-installations CD). It won't boot from a memory-stick either - but I am not so shure if it ever has done that (I have a linux-distribution on a 512 MByte -memorystick).
I know the following:
The graphics-card works
The power supply works well enough.
The keyboard works.
If the HDD was broken then the comp should boot from the WinXP-CD-rom.
If the DVD-drive was broken it should boot from the HDD.
If memory was so bad it would not boot I should get beeps from the computer(?). Hmm is that correct? And the BIOS should report something ...
My suspition is that it is the Mobo is broken.
Any other ideas?
I'll report back when I know more - I just do not have the time to fix this before tonight (it is sunday morning just now - and the sun is bright, 28 degrees C (= 82.4 degrees F) so it will be a hot day today - I expect some 34 - 36 degrees C (= 90 - 93 degrees F) which is quite hot considering my geographical location (just 130 miles south of the polar circle ...) The kids want to the beach (that will be a killer - more than 5 people/50 yards wink.gif), picnic, water, a nice breeze ...