On Friday 28 July 2006 22:53, Dave Phillips wrote: > st wrote: > > This could easily be th power supply. Do you have another case handy? > > Not one with a sufficient PS. :( > > > The next thing I would do is to take out every card and > > hard drive, and see if the thing beeps. If it does, > > add the video card back in (make sure no onboard devices > > conflict!), then the first hard drive, and so-on. If you > > have no joy, then I say it's power supply, CPU, mother board, > > in that order. You will simply have to swap them out to find out. > > That looks like the order of the day. Alas, I probably won't get to it > until later this weekend. > > > Also, are you sure that your power supply can handle your > > setup? Removing the drives might help find out. If you > > are drawing too many amps from the power supply, I would > > expect the sort of behaviour that you are experiencing. > > It seems like 500W is par for the course these days. > > The Sonata II comes with a 450W PS, it should be good enough for this > system. > > > Also, don't tell me that you turned the power on EVEN FOR A SECOND > > without a greased and powered cpu cooler attached. > > No fear, the CPU is covered by a massive Zalman fan. Power hasn't > remained on for more than a second anyway. > > I'll take out drives etc., will see what happens next. > > Best, > > dp Just a thought, and I've no idea if this would cause these sort of problems. Was the CMOS battery preinstalled on the mobo? Sometimes preinstalled batteries have a piece of insulation to separate them from being in circuit, and discharging while sat on the shelf, perhaps for months. Nigel.
