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<font size=3>At 05:35 AM 10/24/2009, Kawayanan wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite class=cite cite="">I have a mythtv box that I have
been using for almost 2 years now. It is based on a Asus Pundit
P1-AH2, with a Athlon X2 4000+ CPU. Recently, when I got up one
morning it was not running. When I tried to reboot, it would freeze
up during boot (generally somewhere shortly after POST). I checked
the BIOS setting and everything seemed fine. To see if it was a OS
problem, I tried to run an Ubuntu live CD. This also froze during
boot. My first guess was a RAM problem (I couldn't get a RAM test
to boot up enough to run though). I got ahold of a different stick
of RAM, and that didn't fix anything. Somewhere in all this testing
it went from freezing in boot (sometimes during post), to not even
getting evidence of POST activity. Now, when I turn it on, the fans
start but nothing else happens (no beeps, no video). To try and
diagnose the problem, I removed everything I could (except the
CPU). Without RAM, it get the beep code for bad/no RAM. If I
install the RAM, I get nothing (no beeps, no video, just fans turn
on).<br><br>
My question is whether there is a way to determine if this is a CPU or
motherboard problem? I don't have access to a different CPU to
test, and I don't want to buy a CPU and have it turn out to be a
motherboard problem. If its a motherboard problem, I guess that
means starting over with a effectively new system (the Asus is a
barebones with most everything onboard).<br><br>
Any suggestions? My wife and kids are missing DVR. :(<br><br>
Thank for any help! </font></blockquote><br>
Before you give up check the PSU by trying to jury rig another PSU from
another working machine to the Pundit motherboard. While PSU connectors
have evolved, there are adapters to make one connector work with another
motherboard. Take an existing working machine, put it next to the Pundit,
unplug its PSU cable, move the cable over to the Pundit and plug it in
possibly using a PSU cable adapter, and check to see if you can get the
Pundit to POST. <br><br>
Alternatively, you could find someone with a motherboard that supports a
Athlon X2 4000+ and remembering to use the proper heat sync compound,
swap the processor out to test. You could also do the same thing with the
memory. <br><br>
-- Mache<br>
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