My Gigabyte 8KNXP died ... again ...

Well, it has been almost two years since I last posted here. But much
like my previous post in ...

http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.co...f 76dc82cf784

... I now find myself, for the second time, the (unfortunate) owner of a
failed Gigabyte 8KNXP Rev. 1 board.

Strangely, the failure (this time) was a lot like my original failure
-- I usually leave my computer on most of the time, but for some
reason, I decided to turn it off before I went to bed ... and when I
woke up the next morning, it wouldn't POST. (I re-seated the RAM, the
video card, blew compressed air, unplugged the hard drives; I even
tried to plug in the extra 3-phase power supply card that came with the
board, all to no avail.)

Bummer.

Kris.

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Well, it has been almost two years since I last posted here. But much
like my previous post in ...

http://groups.google.ca/group/alt.co...f 76dc82cf784

.. I now find myself, for the second time, the (unfortunate) owner of a
failed Gigabyte 8KNXP Rev. 1 board.

Strangely, the failure (this time) was a lot like my original failure
-- I usually leave my computer on most of the time, but for some
reason, I decided to turn it off before I went to bed ... and when I
woke up the next morning, it wouldn't POST. (I re-seated the RAM, the
video card, blew compressed air, unplugged the hard drives; I even
tried to plug in the extra 3-phase power supply card that came with the
board, all to no avail.)

Bummer.

Kris.


Have you/can you check the PSU on another PC or do you have a spare PSU?

To explain, the same thing happened to my setup (same mobo) about 6 months
ago and it turned out to be the PSU (OCZ - not exactly a budget model).
Shut it down after months of near flawless operation and suddenly no POST,
no fans, no nothing. I got a spare mobo, CPU etc plugged in the old PSU -
same result. Got my old Antec 300 watt from under the bed plugged it into
the Gigabyte board and voila - it booted just fine.

BillL