My fave pc died :(

[Wolfy]

I have been using an Asus Pundit small form factor pc for the last three years, awsome reliability, small, quiet, low power consumption... till yesterday morning when it flipped out, all fans now run at full speed and just starts up with no monitor output

Switched cpu and ram to no avail... reset cmos, even tried powering up with no cpu in place.

Now the machine can be powered on via panel button but has to be shut off at the mains and well... other than running fans, it seems dead

<whine>

Oh well, now have an athlon x2 3800 and 2gb ram spare.

 

[thgill]

I know what thats like.


GF's PC recently kicked the bucket. Was working fine one minute, left for the room for 20 minutes and came back in and it was dead. Machine powers up, spins the fans but never even attempts to post. Reset the CMOS, pulled memory... but still no luck.

Its an older C2D machine so i didn't spend a lot of time trouble shooting it. More than likely its a bad mobo. Pulled out a spare dual core machine from the closet for her to use.

 

[FaSMaN]

Did you check for bad caps?

Might be fixable

 

[Wolfy]

All the caps look fine, of course looks can be decieving...

Don`t have time to mess with it atm as got other pcs to set up, still annoying tho.

 

[cosmicfrog]

funny I got 2 A1200s doing something similar abet without the fans though

you say "machine can be powered on via panel button" dose that mean you can run an OS ?? if so I be tempted reflash the BIOS

I blame the tansition of Venus, am sure it got some thing do with sexxy women :double

 

[anagrama]

Best thing to do is ebay the motherboard model and see if you can replace, that way theres no need to replace the operating system with a new installation. Just a little work replacing it and it will up and running just like it was in the good old days

btw it sounds like your motherboard is duff, especially if it wont even post.

 

[tokyoracer]

You checked the CMOS battery and jumpers?

Also it might be worth stripping it down and rebuilding with some troubleshooting tial and error...

 

[Justin]

I have been using an Asus Pundit small form factor pc for the last three years, awsome reliability, small, quiet, low power consumption... till yesterday morning when it flipped out, all fans now run at full speed and just starts up with no monitor output

Switched cpu and ram to no avail... reset cmos, even tried powering up with no cpu in place.

Now the machine can be powered on via panel button but has to be shut off at the mains and well... other than running fans, it seems dead

<whine>

Oh well, now have an athlon x2 3800 and 2gb ram spare.

i had one of these and it did what yours is doing, in my case it was the psu

 

[keropi]

that's strange.... this morning I found my intel mITX fileserver pc to be quite dead as well...

 

[ptp170]

Psu psu psu:d

 

[Harrison]

First thing to always do is try another PSU, and don't keep trying the existing one because if it's developed a fault it's only a few power cycles away from magic smoke and will often take the motherboard with it.

Fans spinning but no post is always PSU, motherboard, or both.

 

[Powerpie5000]

My brothers Fujitsu Siemens PC recently died too... It ended up being the onboard GPU (which also doubles up as the SATA controller). Installed a dedicated GPU (which worked), but of course the PC still couldn't boot from any of the drives :roll:

 

[AmiNeo]

@Powerpie5000 - Sounds like it took the drives or the IDE / SATA controllers out with it.

Try the drives in another machine to be certain theyre dead.

 

[Powerpie5000]

@Powerpie5000 - Sounds like it took the drives or the IDE / SATA controllers out with it.

Try the drives in another machine to be certain theyre dead.

The drives all work fine (being used in his replacement PC now)... The motherboard had one of those nvidia geforce 7025/nforce 630a chips (graphics and SATA controller in a single chip). The actual chip itself had failed as the board couldn't detect any SATA devices (tried multiple drives) and couldn't output anything to the screen (but a dedicated GPU worked fine).

 

[Wolfy]

Just tried it again with a different psu and same results, full rev fan, no post, pc can be powered on but has to be mains shutoff.
Thankfully there is no data, or OS on it as I was living off of a 1gig SD card...

I feel short changed at the lack of smoke...

Ho hum, I purchased a HP DC7800 core2duo 2.66ghz, 2 gigs ram, 160hd for a friend of friend, small form BTX... 100 to the door, tore a strip off of the pundit, but pundit was quite a bit smaller...

I cannot afford to do anything about it for now, but the HP systems are tempting.