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Last week I purchased a replacement motherboard (Intel D845GEBV2—new
in original factory box factory sealed static bag from an eBay
reseller) for a spare machine in a guest room upstairs. The machine
was used mainly for Internet connection and I wasn't interested in
spending a lot of money to upgrade it. Prior to replacement the
onboard ethernet card had stopped working and I could no longer get
the machine to boot up with the floppy disk first in boot order in
BIOS. What prompted me to replace the board, however, was that it
stopped booting up XP (except from the Ultimate Boot CD for XP) and I
noticed one of the capacitors was starting to ooze.
After installing the new motherboard, however, I found that the
machine would not boot at all—in fact it would stop working before it
even got to the POST beeps. I tried a different power supply but that
didn't make any difference. I then tried pulling the memory and that
got me through to three POST beeps (memory fault) on the new board. I
tried one memory stick at a time but no luck on that either. I
removed the three cards including the video board from the machine but
that too proved to be a dead end. I also tried unplugging the hard
drives to see if I could boot from a floppy—no luck on that either or
on disconnecting the two optical drives!
My whole purpose was to avoid spending a lot of money on this old
machine so I'm not keen on buying either memory or a CPU simply to
rule them out as possible causes for this behavior. So I'm hoping
someone will unlock the secret of what is going on here for me. I've
built many machines and changed many motherboards but never run into
anything quite as obstinate or mysterious as this.
One thing that strikes me as quite peculiar is that the machine will
not start up at all—not even for a few seconds—from the regular start
switch. It will only start from the master on-off switch on the power
supply.
Thanks in advance for any help!
in original factory box factory sealed static bag from an eBay
reseller) for a spare machine in a guest room upstairs. The machine
was used mainly for Internet connection and I wasn't interested in
spending a lot of money to upgrade it. Prior to replacement the
onboard ethernet card had stopped working and I could no longer get
the machine to boot up with the floppy disk first in boot order in
BIOS. What prompted me to replace the board, however, was that it
stopped booting up XP (except from the Ultimate Boot CD for XP) and I
noticed one of the capacitors was starting to ooze.
After installing the new motherboard, however, I found that the
machine would not boot at all—in fact it would stop working before it
even got to the POST beeps. I tried a different power supply but that
didn't make any difference. I then tried pulling the memory and that
got me through to three POST beeps (memory fault) on the new board. I
tried one memory stick at a time but no luck on that either. I
removed the three cards including the video board from the machine but
that too proved to be a dead end. I also tried unplugging the hard
drives to see if I could boot from a floppy—no luck on that either or
on disconnecting the two optical drives!
My whole purpose was to avoid spending a lot of money on this old
machine so I'm not keen on buying either memory or a CPU simply to
rule them out as possible causes for this behavior. So I'm hoping
someone will unlock the secret of what is going on here for me. I've
built many machines and changed many motherboards but never run into
anything quite as obstinate or mysterious as this.
One thing that strikes me as quite peculiar is that the machine will
not start up at all—not even for a few seconds—from the regular start
switch. It will only start from the master on-off switch on the power
supply.
Thanks in advance for any help!