From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 741D2138010 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 21:00:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 91F01E030B; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:59:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [178.33.32.244]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2E17E0268 for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:57:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (xdsl-87-79-195-94.netcologne.de [87.79.195.94]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 50728DC04A for ; Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:57:44 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <503D30C7.1000209@wonkology.org> Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2012 22:57:43 +0200 From: Alex Schuster Organization: Wonkology User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try? References: <502DF7D0.8010200@wonkology.org> <3485581.aiICU322tR@energy> <502E8A72.3090600@wonkology.org> <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> In-Reply-To: <502E9E84.4060500@wonkology.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: ba4a9866-715c-4291-ab74-c183ba1f921e X-Archives-Hash: a3ac6bd31c403e98222347d6a250d795 I wrote: > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be > okay then. This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there is only one that has the features I want - AMD3+ chipset, four memory banks, USB 3, and on-board graphics. So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it might be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the PC shop diagnose CPU and board. This took until today, and they confirmed it was the board indeed, not the CPU. Fine, I bought the board, installed it in the PC, and guess what - it doesn't work. On the first boot I saw some BIOS status messages, hard drives and such, but the keyboard did not react, and then it did not boot, I got a black screen only. And on subsequent tries, with everything (2 ISDN cards, 4 hard drives) except for the DVD drive removed, the screen does not even turn on. All fans spin, and the DVD-ROM tray opens when I press the eject button. That's all. No keyboard LEDs. This sucks. Is it a faulty board again? Is something (the PSU?) killing the board once I turn the thing on? What will happen when I have the next board and try again? Argh. Wonko