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ZAP!!!!
I have a system with a K7V motherboard. System was working fine, until we
moved. First time system was plugged in and turned on after the move, there was that nice smell of something that "smoked". The monitor was certainly dead afterwards(didn't work on any of our other systems afterwards). The system gets the "beep" code indicating that no video card is found. Nothing ever comes up on the monitor(a "good" monitor that is), but all the fans come on, including on the CPU and the video card, plus all the drives get a "hit". Of course after a moment or 2 the system then powers itself off. Reseated everything including memory, reset BIOS, unplugged evrything except video card. Connections seem to be OK. Other video adapter isn't seen either, and the video adapter that was in the system when it "smoked" is still fine.....it works when used in another system. Kinda weird.... if the monitor and the motherboard both went at the same time I had expected the graphics card(Hercules 3D Prophet 4500) would also be fried. I'll be looking for another MOBO(not so easy since it was a pre-Pentium4 ATX Form Factor Card) unless someone has another idea. |
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try swapping the power supply first...
it may have one rail that is no longer functioning correctly. Thi swill allow what looks like a partial power up. But the system will not boot. "d-day" wrote in message . .. I have a system with a K7V motherboard. System was working fine, until we moved. First time system was plugged in and turned on after the move, there was that nice smell of something that "smoked". The monitor was certainly dead afterwards(didn't work on any of our other systems afterwards). The system gets the "beep" code indicating that no video card is found. Nothing ever comes up on the monitor(a "good" monitor that is), but all the fans come on, including on the CPU and the video card, plus all the drives get a "hit". Of course after a moment or 2 the system then powers itself off. Reseated everything including memory, reset BIOS, unplugged evrything except video card. Connections seem to be OK. Other video adapter isn't seen either, and the video adapter that was in the system when it "smoked" is still fine.....it works when used in another system. Kinda weird.... if the monitor and the motherboard both went at the same time I had expected the graphics card(Hercules 3D Prophet 4500) would also be fried. I'll be looking for another MOBO(not so easy since it was a pre-Pentium4 ATX Form Factor Card) unless someone has another idea. |
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Well, I was able to get the system to come back up. I took an old PCI
console adapter card and stuck it in a PCI slot and the system recognized it and came back up. It appears the AGP slot is fried, though. "Kirby Crosby" wrote in message .cable.rogers.com... try swapping the power supply first... it may have one rail that is no longer functioning correctly. Thi swill allow what looks like a partial power up. But the system will not boot. "d-day" wrote in message . .. I have a system with a K7V motherboard. System was working fine, until we moved. First time system was plugged in and turned on after the move, there was that nice smell of something that "smoked". The monitor was certainly dead afterwards(didn't work on any of our other systems afterwards). The system gets the "beep" code indicating that no video card is found. Nothing ever comes up on the monitor(a "good" monitor that is), but all the fans come on, including on the CPU and the video card, plus all the drives get a "hit". Of course after a moment or 2 the system then powers itself off. Reseated everything including memory, reset BIOS, unplugged evrything except video card. Connections seem to be OK. Other video adapter isn't seen either, and the video adapter that was in the system when it "smoked" is still fine.....it works when used in another system. Kinda weird.... if the monitor and the motherboard both went at the same time I had expected the graphics card(Hercules 3D Prophet 4500) would also be fried. I'll be looking for another MOBO(not so easy since it was a pre-Pentium4 ATX Form Factor Card) unless someone has another idea. |
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