Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

[Alex Schuster]

I wrote:

> Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be
> okay then.

This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already 
have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there is only one 
that has the features I want - AMD3+ chipset, four memory banks, USB 3, 
and on-board graphics.

So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it might 
be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the PC shop 
diagnose CPU and board. This took until today, and they confirmed it was 
the board indeed, not the CPU. Fine, I bought the board, installed it in 
the PC, and guess what - it doesn't work. On the first boot I saw some 
BIOS status messages, hard drives and such, but the keyboard did not 
react, and then it did not boot, I got a black screen only. And on 
subsequent tries, with everything (2 ISDN cards, 4 hard drives) except 
for the DVD drive removed, the screen does not even turn on. All fans 
spin, and the DVD-ROM tray opens when I press the eject button. That's 
all. No keyboard LEDs.

This sucks. Is it a faulty board again? Is something (the PSU?) killing 
the board once I turn the thing on? What will happen when I have the 
next board and try again? Argh.

	Wonko