Dropped IBM IntelliStation M Pro

[MatthewLCarter]

I am going to start off and say that the IBM IntelliStation M Pro was
resting on a chair and fell. I know, stupid and I am paying the
price.

I have tried multiple VIDEO cards to try to get the display to come
up, nothing doing. I see that the system powers on and yet no
beeping. Hmmm I just thought as I was typing this that I should take
the MEMORY out, I did so and powered it off and then on. No beeping.
It should say NO MEMORY (in beep language). The hard drive light is
SOLID and the power light is on. The CD ROM light flashes once in a
while as if it looks or is looking for a CD, but I put a linux DBAN
WIPE floppy disk in to see if it will boot and read from the floppy.

I cleared the CMOS and still no beeping.

Any ideas? I don't know what to check to see if the system is damaged.

 

[jvin248]

If you're not getting monitor activity, no graphics card post, no
beeps, it's probably something around the CPU/Motherboard. One light
or two lights and no beeping activity means CPU or Motherboard problem
(sorry, can't remember which, though single light most likely
motherboard). Check the battery (maybe it was jarred loose), and the
speaker connection.

Was it powered when dropped? If unpowered I'd suspect its the mobo,
powered it could be a blown cpu or mobo. If you have a second machine
you could swap the cpu and verify that - also try swapping ram.

If you want, contact me as I just received 4 of these machines. Make
an offer on one/all or parts. I do some desktop pc repair,
refurbishment, and sales and can ship.

I came across your question trolling for an answer on how to get these
machines to boot from the CD-Rom - they all boot into SCSI and Floppy
but I haven't found the way yet to get the IDE CD to boot up first..
I'm planning on installing Linux.

John ([email protected])