<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 11:38 PM, vamythguy <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vamythguy@gmail.com">vamythguy@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><br><br>The Problem:<br><br>After
installing the fan and the memory, the machine refuses to boot. There
is no video, the post code indicates it's booting, but the HD and
CD/DVD just keep cycling. I have tried just about every combo of
stripped down mobo I can but nothing (other than the cycling drives).
My media remains orphaned.<br>
<br></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br>1) You say stripped, but it sounds like your drives are still connected. Unplug them from the board / card, and if it's a RAID card remove that from the board as well. You want nothing more than CPU, RAM and video hooked to the motherboard in instances like this.<br>
<br>2) Have you removed the board from the PC? Maybe it's grounding out on something.<br><br>3) Hook up a PC speaker to the motherboard and listen for beep codes.<br><br>Good topic though, I'm going to be upgrading my backend storage soon and this post asks some of the same questions I have. Being a Windows admin by trade, LVM and software RAID frighten me.<br>
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