"AthlonRob" <athlonrob@nodomainhere.ext> wrote in message
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On Sat, 20 Sep 2003 11:37:54 +1200, ~misfit~

<misfit@'SPAMTRAP'orcon.net.nz> wrote:

I need help with this latest one.

As I'm sure you're aware... it's all a process of elimination.  :-)

Yup.

Find a piece of cardboard big enough to set the motherboard on.  Remove
the board, place it on the cardboard, with only RAM, CPU, and video card
plugged in to it.  I'd blow off any dust that's on there, too, just for
shits and giggles.

Plug the powersupply in to the board... and only the board (not any case
fans or drives).  Plug your monitor into the video card and see if you
get any output.  No?  Then we limited it to RAM, CPU, video card,
motherboard, or PSU.  No chance of a short when it's on cardboard.  :-)

My money is on the motherboard or PSU... I've just never had a RAM chip,
CPU, or video card just 'go out' on me like that.  There's always been a
reason.

Same here.

Dead drives can fry a lot of things, BTW.  I had a dead hard drive fry
two motherboards and two PSUs before I realized that was the cause.  For
whatever reason, one of those two systems recovered by itself after
sitting for a few months (and is now my server).  Be careful with
potentially dead hard drives.

I hope it isn't his drive, I don't have a replacement I can give him and his
data will be gone.

Good luck.

Thanks Rob.
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