[vox-tech] Hardware crash

[Dylan Beaudette]

Thanks Jeff,

That was my first thought... but I had just replaced the power supply
a couple of months ago. When trying to resurrect the dead machine, I
unplugged everything attached to the power supply except the mother
board.

Dylan

On Sat, Feb 26, 2011 at 4:31 PM, Jeff Newmiller
<jdnewmil at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:
> Before you write off the mobo, I would check the power supply. Of course, ps
> failures sometimes take out the mobo along their way out, but not always.
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> Dylan Beaudette <dylan.beaudette at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi,
>>
>> Accidentally sent part of this message too soon.
>>
>> I have been using an ASUS PC-DL Delux dual Xeon based machine since about
>> 2005. Overall it has been a very decent machine. However, this morning I
>> plugged in a usb device, the machine froze, and now will not
>> POST. I have tried disconnecting everything inside of the machine, but it
>> will not sound the POST beep, and no video appears on the monitor.
>> I have tried pulling the CMOS battery and resetting the BIOS via jumper...
>> but nothing. I have had problems with the USB ports on this machine in the
>> past, however it would always recover after a reboot.
>>
>> Any ideas? Or is it time for a new motherboard + CPUs ?
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>> Dylan
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