<div dir="ltr">Patrick,<div>Sounds good - good luck and have a merry Christmas!</div><div><br></div><div>Sincerely,</div><div>Dan</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 16, 2013 at 1:02 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:patrick@upmerchants.com" target="_blank">patrick@upmerchants.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">I don't really consider it "bad" news, just "inconvient" news.<br>
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Running off my backup system right now. But will have to get the main system fixed as it funs "everything" for me. Everything being a kvm host to what I play with these days.<br>
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Am ordering a memory stick from <a href="http://tigerdirect.com" target="_blank">tigerdirect.com</a> today. Really cheap with all the sales going on.<br>
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Will try the motherboard next if the memory does not fix it.<br>
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Will see what happens.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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Sounds like a system board. I've seen those exact same issues on various<br>
amd/Intel systems. No video is a pretty typical indicator of a bad board.<br>
You may want to check the capacitors. Sometimes the old caps leak and<br>
cause weird issues. I've been able to bring a board new life by replacing<br>
them. If it has the old style capacitors you'll see them peaked on the top<br>
sometimes with discoloration.<br>
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There are still quite a few that have main frames. We work on a wide<br>
variety of systems and architectures.<br>
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Sorry for the bad news.<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
On Dec 16, 2013 10:55 AM, <<a href="mailto:patrick@upmerchants.com" target="_blank">patrick@upmerchants.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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I've been doing this kind of stuff myself for over 40 years, but it was<br>
mostly ibm 360/370 type equipment. The pc type stuff has just been from<br>
about 1999 / 2000 when I started with Caldera linux.<br>
<br>
You said mainframes also. Are there many sites in GR still running big<br>
blue? I did some contract programming at Meijer's in 1997 / 1998.<br>
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Also forgot to mention that when I power on the computer I get a "No<br>
Signal" message on the monitor. So that should mean someting too but I<br>
don't know if it is helpful.<br>
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Quoting "<a href="mailto:danwiddisii@gmail.com" target="_blank">danwiddisii@gmail.com</a>" <<a href="mailto:danwiddisii@gmail.com" target="_blank">danwiddisii@gmail.com</a>>:<br>
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Patrick,<br>
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They usually do - however I've seen them not beep as well - I don't mean<br>
to<br>
be cryptic - but I've seen just about every type of failure out there -<br>
it's fairly typical to have them not beep on memory errors now days.<br>
<br>
If you can get it to power up to post and it crashes - (if you can) try to<br>
download and burn that memtest86 disc and see if it'll boot off that - if<br>
no luck you'll just have to work one thing at a time.<br>
<br>
You may want to pick up a static strap (to protect parts/pieces while<br>
swapping them out) - you'd be amazed at how a small amount of static<br>
electricity can affect parts.<br>
If you have a friend with the same type of memory see if you can work out<br>
testing with their memory. That might save you some money.<br>
Tigerdirect/Newegg have great deals on memory/system boards during the<br>
holiday's so that may be a good time to upgrade/replace anyway.<br>
<br>
Hopefully you'll get things worked out. I wish I could help but my current<br>
pc is a little older (not to mentioned packed) since we're moving to<br>
Florida next week :)<br>
<br>
Good Luck!<br>
<br>
Dan<br>
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