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Two systems down! Damn my luck.

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smp

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Okay, so my web/mail server is down, I broke lilo with a distribution upgrade. When I was trying to boot off of a rescue disk, the system would hang on "verifying DMI pool" .. hang, hang, hang .. okay, reboot .. again, hang, hang, hang .. it wouldn't boot of the floppy, and I tried like 3 of them (with this image) .. all other images would boot, but wouldn't mount root, I needed a good rescue disk, but it wouldn't boot. I somehow managed to pull the floppy with the green floppy activity LED on .. this hung it. Upon reboot, it wouldn't even POST.

Okay .. system #2 .. there was a power out this morning. I slept through it, but my main desktop wouldn't post afterwards!!!
The drives spin, the fans whir, but nothing, no post beep.

I tried clearing the cmos on both, to no avail.
Are both motherboards fried? Could it just be the PSU on system #2?
I need to buy new parts tomorrow, I know, but how many?!!

System #1 - Abit KT7A, duron 700, antec PSU
System #2 - Abit KG7, tbirrd 1.4, antec PSU

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I would try different sticks of ram and cutting the switch off and then back on on the psu. Also, would make sure the video cards are setted well. Hope you get them back up and running
 
System #1 is okay.
I removed the floppy drive altogether and it's okay.
I put the floppy back on and it still works. Weird.

I tried system #1's power supply on system #2, system #2 behaves the same, spin up, lights etc .. no post.

I think my motherboard is dead.
Time for an NF7s
 
The mobo in my PC is doing the same thing - everything spins up, fans go, but no POST. Thing is, the mobo is brand new (RMA'd from Abit) and the PS is a brand new Antec TrueBlue 480. I'm pretty sure my processor's done. Maybe check the CPU in another system with a good mobo before assuming MB is bad?

Also....when I pulled my (3 years old in December) Abit KT7-RAID board, I noticed that there were bulging capacitors on it. 2 were even leaking! I applied for an RMA request from Abit, and they waived the $25 out-of-warranty charge and RMA'd it for free - I only had to pay shipping. They said it was due to a "special case" with my model of mobo. So, I did a little research on the net, and found that Abit used crappy electrolyte solution in almost all of their mobos from the approximate time mine was built, and have had MANY MANY mobos come back with bad caps - so they may RMA it for free if it's got bad caps in it. Maybe this info might help you out 🙂. GL!
 
Oh yeah, and check out the ram too...I had a bad stick (less than 3 months old, BTW :|) and with it in the first slot, my PC wouldn't post or beep, but fans, etc. would spin up. Replaced it, and it booted right up. The place I got the ram from is now being difficult about RMAing the chip.
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If my CPU is bad, shouldn't I get error beeps?
You don't have to have a CPU, ram, or anything really but the speaker plugged into a motherboard to get it to do something. The bios should beep and let me know what it thinks is wrong. This is why I think it's the mobo. Someone correct me if I'm wrong, especially cause I'm about to go buy a new mobo today.
 
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