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jim evans
I'd been using a box with a SOYO K7VTA Pro and a AMD 1.3 gHz Athlon
for a couple of years. A friend said he buy it, so I decided to
upgrade and sell him the SOYO box to defray the upgrade cost.
In December I built my new system. All I removed from the SOYO box
were my two hard drives and a CD burner. Nothing else was touched.
It sat untouched since December 'til today. There was no reason to
think anything could be wrong, but before asking him to bring his
drives over to configure it for him I decided to boot it from a DOS
floppy just to be sure everything's working. It ain't!
In the old days we got beep codes to diagnose what's wrong. No more.
This motherboard talks to you over the tiny built-in squeaker-speaker.
When I power it on I get no signal to the monitor (monitor's signal
indicator lamp remains amber). At power-on faint, squeaky,
completely unintelligible talking sounds come from the speaker for
about 15 seconds. The hard drive lamp on the front of the box lights
for about 2 minutes, then the floppy runs a little and the hard drive
lamp goes out - then nothing more. All the fans are running. If I
press Del repeatedly at power-on it appears to go into the CMOS
because the hard drive lamp goes off almost immediately.
I tried the video card in another computer and it works. I tried
hooking up to another monitor -- no help.
The 5 & 12 volts at the drive power connectors looks good. In the old
days we could check all the voltages to be sure the power supply was
working. No more. You have to disconnect the connector to get at the
pins and with ATX boxes the connector must be connected to turn the
power supply on.
To repeat, it was working fine. I removed three drives (I'd changed
drives in it many times while it was my main computer.). I did
nothing else except let it sit for a couple of months.
Anybody have any suggestions for how to diagnose the problem?
jim
for a couple of years. A friend said he buy it, so I decided to
upgrade and sell him the SOYO box to defray the upgrade cost.
In December I built my new system. All I removed from the SOYO box
were my two hard drives and a CD burner. Nothing else was touched.
It sat untouched since December 'til today. There was no reason to
think anything could be wrong, but before asking him to bring his
drives over to configure it for him I decided to boot it from a DOS
floppy just to be sure everything's working. It ain't!
In the old days we got beep codes to diagnose what's wrong. No more.
This motherboard talks to you over the tiny built-in squeaker-speaker.
When I power it on I get no signal to the monitor (monitor's signal
indicator lamp remains amber). At power-on faint, squeaky,
completely unintelligible talking sounds come from the speaker for
about 15 seconds. The hard drive lamp on the front of the box lights
for about 2 minutes, then the floppy runs a little and the hard drive
lamp goes out - then nothing more. All the fans are running. If I
press Del repeatedly at power-on it appears to go into the CMOS
because the hard drive lamp goes off almost immediately.
I tried the video card in another computer and it works. I tried
hooking up to another monitor -- no help.
The 5 & 12 volts at the drive power connectors looks good. In the old
days we could check all the voltages to be sure the power supply was
working. No more. You have to disconnect the connector to get at the
pins and with ATX boxes the connector must be connected to turn the
power supply on.
To repeat, it was working fine. I removed three drives (I'd changed
drives in it many times while it was my main computer.). I did
nothing else except let it sit for a couple of months.
Anybody have any suggestions for how to diagnose the problem?
jim