Dead Board?

Shotgun Fu · Post by **Shotgun Fu** » Fri May 02, 2003 3:14 am

I got a basically free BP6 a while back and I've been fiddling with it trying to get it working. I have a know good C366 and known good RAM. I've tried both PCI and AGP cards with it and neither seem to work. I doesn't even POST. I've tried the CPU in both sockets and I've moved the RAM around as well.

Is there anything else I should try before I toss a couple of dead PI's in the board, throw in some dead RAM and hang it on the wall?

Chris

Post by **Derek** » Fri May 02, 2003 7:00 am

Check all the capacitors on the motherboard. Dead or dying capacitors may leak or bulge and need to be replaced.

Shotgun Fu · Post by **Shotgun Fu** » Fri May 02, 2003 12:50 pm

The caps all look OK... I'll give them a closer look though.

Shotgun Fu · Post by **Shotgun Fu** » Fri May 02, 2003 3:55 pm

I looked carefully at all the caps and they look fine. Any other ideas anyone?

iSDn · Post by **iSDn** » Fri May 02, 2003 4:15 pm

Try to boot with an isa graphics card, maybe your bios is corrupt.

Shotgun Fu · Post by **Shotgun Fu** » Fri May 02, 2003 11:53 pm

I tried an ISA card. Still no go. I don't even get beep codes. I think it may well be truly dead. I'll put it aside for the moment pending further insperation but I think I may have a cool board for my wall.

Post by **Derek** » Sat May 03, 2003 11:42 am

You're power supply may be fried.