Re: System Won't Power Up Anymore



nobody@xxxxxxx (Kevin the Drummer) wrote in
news:slrnfhpf0n.g3e.nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

off while out of town for the weekend. Now it won't power up again.
This time it won't even activate the monitor, so I can't get to the
BIOS.


Does the cpu cooling fan do anthing when you power the system up?

If the BIOS has a setting to require a minimum CPU fan rpm before startup
(ABIT NF7's have such a setting) and if that setting is enabled then you
may never get to the bios screen if the fan is dead or disconnected.

If the CPU Fan setting is disabled, then something should happen but only
for a few seconds until the CPU temperature hits the shutdown point. At
that point an NF7 will beep like crazy but otherwise play dead. I suspect
that an AV8 may do the same.


regards,

mungo

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