Hello, friends,
I recently bought one DFI Lanparty UT X48 from a guy (in addition to another .775 MoBo), just to play around a bit and then resell it. He had stated in his ad that he had experienced booting problems but swapping the RAM sticks solved them.
Now the motherboard won’t boot up. Actually I think it did, the first time only – I entered BIOS, then switched it off and this was it. It doesn’t give POST beep, the display shows 8.8., CPU fan works.
I have tried with the following components, tested successfully on other rigs:
- Two CPUs – E3400 & Q6600;
- A few different RAM sticks, one by one, in all four slots;
- A GeForce 7600GS videocard (in both PCI-E slots);
- A Thermaltake 550W PSU (which was also on my own rig until recently); (yes, I’m plugging the whole 8-pin power connector next to the CPU);
In order to reset BIOS I tried both methods: 1st with the jumper and then via the onboard power & reset buttons (I learned this from the manual)
I can’t see visibly bad capacitors.
Is it GAME OVER?
Can a bad PLCC BIOS chip result in this behavior?
I recently bought one DFI Lanparty UT X48 from a guy (in addition to another .775 MoBo), just to play around a bit and then resell it. He had stated in his ad that he had experienced booting problems but swapping the RAM sticks solved them.
Now the motherboard won’t boot up. Actually I think it did, the first time only – I entered BIOS, then switched it off and this was it. It doesn’t give POST beep, the display shows 8.8., CPU fan works.
I have tried with the following components, tested successfully on other rigs:
- Two CPUs – E3400 & Q6600;
- A few different RAM sticks, one by one, in all four slots;
- A GeForce 7600GS videocard (in both PCI-E slots);
- A Thermaltake 550W PSU (which was also on my own rig until recently); (yes, I’m plugging the whole 8-pin power connector next to the CPU);
In order to reset BIOS I tried both methods: 1st with the jumper and then via the onboard power & reset buttons (I learned this from the manual)
I can’t see visibly bad capacitors.
Is it GAME OVER?
Can a bad PLCC BIOS chip result in this behavior?
Thank you very much!
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