Bad Mobo? How to troubleshoot?
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Posted by Michael 23 on May 18, 2005, 9:30 am
Please log in for more thread options I have a homebuilt pc in my garage, with a soyo k7vempro motherboard, running windows xp. It is a pretty lean machine, with only Sonar recording software and 2 or 3 other apps installed. (my garage is also my music studio) Anyway, sometime this past winter it developed 2 simultaneous problems... 1) It only starts once every so often - I changed power supplies from a working pc, and replaced the switch in the case (the old one was crappy anyway), still no change. I can click and click, and it only starts once out of every bazillion or so clicks. -- once it does start, it seems to run fine - it has been on now for weeks, for fear of being unable to turn it back on once it is powered down. 2) It does not shut down all the way - this may be the major tell here (?) of what is wrong... win xp will shut down, and just about the point that it used to just peacefully click off, it instead now goes into this strange idle, black screen, fans running, and the led's on the 2 cd drives flickering sickly on an off. AND now I have one more fun problem... it stopped seeing the onboard LAN port. No "network adapters" category is visible at all under the device manager, and there is just nothin' happening lan-wise whatsoever. I have NO problem replacing the mobo, not a big deal to toss this one and start over, but I need to know if it IS in fact un recoverable, and that a new one would do the trick. More than the cost, it is the effort to rebuild the darn thing that has me hesitant. Thanks in advance for any advice... | ||||||||||||||||
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Posted by iTunesIsEvil on May 20, 2005, 6:32 pm
Please log in for more thread options Check inside the case for anything that looks like it could be shorting the mobo out... A wire touching something it shouldnt be, check the clearance between the board and the case, etc... I wouldn't think that would be the problem with shutdown mind you, but thats what it sounds like it could be since its not powering on even with a new/different PSU and switch. Good Luck :) | ||||||||||||||||
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