st wrote:
> This could easily be th power supply. Do you have another case handy?
Not one with a sufficient PS. :(
> The next thing I would do is to take out every card and
> hard drive, and see if the thing beeps. If it does,
> add the video card back in (make sure no onboard devices
> conflict!), then the first hard drive, and so-on. If you
> have no joy, then I say it's power supply, CPU, mother board,
> in that order. You will simply have to swap them out to find out.
That looks like the order of the day. Alas, I probably won't get to it
until later this weekend.
> Also, are you sure that your power supply can handle your
> setup? Removing the drives might help find out. If you
> are drawing too many amps from the power supply, I would
> expect the sort of behaviour that you are experiencing.
> It seems like 500W is par for the course these days.
The Sonata II comes with a 450W PS, it should be good enough for this
system.
> Also, don't tell me that you turned the power on EVEN FOR A SECOND
> without a greased and powered cpu cooler attached.
No fear, the CPU is covered by a massive Zalman fan. Power hasn't
remained on for more than a second anyway.
I'll take out drives etc., will see what happens next.
Best,
dp
Received on Sat Jul 29 00:15:18 2006
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