Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 16:39:09 -0500 From: Corey John Bukolt <ruinermailchucker@gmail.com> To: Tim Judd <tajudd@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Also have a dead box [ WAS: Re: OT: dead box ] Message-ID: <1269380349.48845.41.camel@ignis.bukolt.lan> In-Reply-To: <ade45ae91003230557g57e58341p2156d2a2f072b04b@mail.gmail.com> References: <20100321101137.GA8202@melon.esperance-linux.co.uk> <4BA601B6.1050807@onetel.com> <1269327949.3708.75.camel@redwood.bukolt.lan> <ade45ae91003230557g57e58341p2156d2a2f072b04b@mail.gmail.com>
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On Tue, 2010-03-23 at 06:57 -0600, Tim Judd wrote: > On 3/23/10, Corey John Bukolt <ruinermailchucker@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:23:34 +0000 (06:23 CDT) Chris Whitehouse wrote: > >> When you press the power button does the cpu fan or the power supply fan > >> spin for a moment then stop? That's a sign that something on or plugged > >> in to the motherboard has blown. Unplug things and test again. > >> > >> Chris > > > > Just a few days ago, I was helping a friend build a system (with all > > brand new components, I might add) and we had this very problem. After > > sticking in the CPU and RAM and hooking up and turning on the PSU, the > > green LED on the motherboard turns on. However, the second the power > > button is pressed, everything flashes for a second, then turns back off. > > The green LED on the motherboard also remains on. The only way to get > > it to flash again is to turn off the PSU, wait, then turn it back on. > > We tried re-seating everything, to no avail. > > > > Reading this thread, someone else mentioned beep codes and that if there > > were none, it's most likely a fried motherboard. > > > > Can anyone else confirm this? > > > > ~Corey > > > Best way to confirm a dead board in any case is those POST diagnosis > cards. They have a dual-digit LED output that changes depending on > the signal on the wire. If at any time those dual-digit LEDs stay > permanently on anything OTHER THAN 00 is a failed POST. If it fails > before it gets a shot at testing RAM or anything, there may be no beep > codes. > > > Always good to have one in a toolkit. So that's what those damn things were for......I have three rack mounted servers sitting in my basement and they each have an on board dual digit readout. I figured they had something to do with the BIOS, but I was just too lazy to find out. ;) Learn something new everyday. Thanks for the advice, I'm going shopping for one right now.
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