FCPGA-2 system stopped booting

[Larry Roberts]

Have an old Celeron 1.1Ghz system that my nieces, and nephew
use for homework, websurfing, email, and such. It's perfect for what
they do. However, it stopped booting up. Just a blank screen. The PSU
was as old as the system, so I figured it had died, and bought a 400W
PSU with a +12V of 24amps. Should be enough to push the system, and
the GeForce 4 Ti4400 card.
I install the new PSU, and turn on the system. Only the
mainboard's LED, and the case's power LED comes on. Neither the CPU,
videocard, or the PSU fans spin up. No drive activity from the HDD,
FDD, or the CDRW. I then install a 500W PSU from my legacy game box,
and it still does the same thing. I tried unplugging all drives from
the mainboard, and PSU, and uninstalling all cards from the mainboard.
It powered the fans on, but when I tried installing only the videocard
to see if it would bootup the BIOS, it's back to not even powering the
fans. Both the PSUs are both working, and powerful enough for my
Athlon XP with a 6600GT AGP (power hungry card), so it should not be a
problem for this old Celeron system. Anyone have any idea what could
be the problem?

 

[Mike T.]

Have an old Celeron 1.1Ghz system that my nieces, and nephew
use for homework, websurfing, email, and such. It's perfect for what
they do. However, it stopped booting up. Just a blank screen. The PSU
was as old as the system, so I figured it had died, and bought a 400W
PSU with a +12V of 24amps. Should be enough to push the system, and
the GeForce 4 Ti4400 card.
I install the new PSU, and turn on the system. Only the
mainboard's LED, and the case's power LED comes on. Neither the CPU,
videocard, or the PSU fans spin up. No drive activity from the HDD,
FDD, or the CDRW. I then install a 500W PSU from my legacy game box,
and it still does the same thing. I tried unplugging all drives from
the mainboard, and PSU, and uninstalling all cards from the mainboard.
It powered the fans on, but when I tried installing only the videocard
to see if it would bootup the BIOS, it's back to not even powering the
fans. Both the PSUs are both working, and powerful enough for my
Athlon XP with a 6600GT AGP (power hungry card), so it should not be a
problem for this old Celeron system. Anyone have any idea what could
be the problem?

Shit. It sounds like something is shorted out when you install the video
card. You might want to remove the mainboard from the case to see if
something is trapped under it. The PSU fan not running is NOT a good sign.
Something is pulling voltage down far enough that even the fans won't spin.
That's pretty radical voltage drop, I'm surprised your PSUs survived
t. -Dave

 

[sft]

Have an old Celeron 1.1Ghz system that my nieces, and nephew
use for homework, websurfing, email, and such. It's perfect for what
they do. However, it stopped booting up. Just a blank screen. The PSU
was as old as the system, so I figured it had died, and bought a 400W
PSU with a +12V of 24amps. Should be enough to push the system, and
the GeForce 4 Ti4400 card.
I install the new PSU, and turn on the system. Only the
mainboard's LED, and the case's power LED comes on. Neither the CPU,
videocard, or the PSU fans spin up. No drive activity from the HDD,
FDD, or the CDRW. I then install a 500W PSU from my legacy game box,
and it still does the same thing. I tried unplugging all drives from
the mainboard, and PSU, and uninstalling all cards from the mainboard.
It powered the fans on, but when I tried installing only the videocard
to see if it would bootup the BIOS, it's back to not even powering the
fans. Both the PSUs are both working, and powerful enough for my
Athlon XP with a 6600GT AGP (power hungry card), so it should not be a
problem for this old Celeron system. Anyone have any idea what could
be the problem?

If you have anyother videocard you may want to try that before you do
anything else.

 

[JAD]

Have an old Celeron 1.1Ghz system that my nieces, and nephew
use for homework, websurfing, email, and such. It's perfect for what
they do. However, it stopped booting up. Just a blank screen. The PSU
was as old as the system, so I figured it had died, and bought a 400W
PSU with a +12V of 24amps. Should be enough to push the system, and
the GeForce 4 Ti4400 card.
I install the new PSU, and turn on the system. Only the
mainboard's LED, and the case's power LED comes on. Neither the CPU,
videocard, or the PSU fans spin up. No drive activity from the HDD,
FDD, or the CDRW. I then install a 500W PSU from my legacy game box,
and it still does the same thing. I tried unplugging all drives from
the mainboard, and PSU, and uninstalling all cards from the mainboard.
It powered the fans on, but when I tried installing only the videocard
to see if it would bootup the BIOS, it's back to not even powering the
fans. Both the PSUs are both working, and powerful enough for my
Athlon XP with a 6600GT AGP (power hungry card), so it should not be a
problem for this old Celeron system. Anyone have any idea what could
be the problem?

disconnect everything except, psu CPU/hs&f, memory (1 stick), and if you have integrated
video, use it instead of the gf.

no post?

pull memory and/or disable video

mainboard should complain with beeping

 

[Larry Roberts]

Shit. It sounds like something is shorted out when you install the video
card. You might want to remove the mainboard from the case to see if
something is trapped under it. The PSU fan not running is NOT a good sign.
Something is pulling voltage down far enough that even the fans won't spin.
That's pretty radical voltage drop, I'm surprised your PSUs survived
t. -Dave

Turned out to be a dead floppy drive. When it was plugged in,
it caused the problem. I had plugged it back in when I was doing the
"videocard only" test. That's why it wouldn't boot, or spin the fans
when I tested it. I took out the floppy drive since it isn't really
needed since I have a flash drive.
Now it seems the GeForce 4 Ti4400 has taken a hit. It's
displaying garbage characters, and lines across the screen. Was
working fine in the system for months. Good thing I have an old
Geforce 2 MX400 handy.

 

[Larry Roberts]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:46:07 -0700, "JAD" <john

disconnect everything except, psu CPU/hs&f, memory (1 stick), and if you have integrated
video, use it instead of the gf.

I had tried pulling everything first, and the fans spun up.
However, when popped just the videocard back in to test for display, I
had plugged the floppy back in. Turned out the floppy drive died, and
when it was plugged in, it caused the problem.
The videocard seems to have taken a hit as it is dsplaying
garbage characters, and lines across the screen.

 

[DaveW]

It certainly sounds like the motherboard has failed. Based on its age, it's
even more likely.