My Turn Now...

[onca]

Turned her on this morning, not a flicker. Fans & HDD starts up... but no POST, no beeps, nothing. Monitor goes into standby mode (ie. no output from graphics card). Can't power down by holding down Power button, have to pull the plug.

Removed every peripheral. Unplugged all cables, and plugged back in. Reseated RAMs. Took out CPU & fan, and reseated (getting thermal goo all over my fingers). Still nothing. Measured 12V connector -- 11.2V. Couldn't easily measure 5V rail. USB devices have power. So ATX is till alive by the looks of it, and that's about it.

I strongly suspect the motherboard has died (low end Gigabyte). I *hope* it's not the CPU or PSU. Now the fun part.... finding an old Socket 478 mobo dirst cheap.

Result: No Freelancer WAAAHHH!! At least I can check the boards on this old laptop:dry:

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