[GRLUG] dead computer

[Patrick Goupell]

On 12/16/2013 08:19 PM, Cprossu wrote:
> I see all the hard stuff has been discussed. Make sure your cmos 
> battery has the correct charge/isn't shorted, I've had ECS boards 
> refuse to post due to that before (it will be a CR2032 lithium button 
> battery on your motherboard between the pcie and pci slots). If it 
> still doesn't boot with a battery swap, try the clear cmos jumper. 
> Like others here I'd check the few electrolytic caps on the 
> motherboard (Actually scratch that, report back of the solid caps that 
> are installed on that board are 'through-hole' or not, I wonder if 
> these are the badly made 'lytics from a while ago that were made to 
> 'look like' solid caps), then swap out the ram, then try another power 
> supply. I'd try a video card too for the heck of it, even if it's an 
> older PCI one. The good news is that if it is your motherboard, you 
> can pick up something fairly cheap (like $55) off of newegg or 
> something (I'd recommend like a Asus M6A78L-M Plus), and if it ends up 
> being your ram, 4gb of kingston ddr3 1333 is currently going for 
> around $30. Either way cheap fix.
>

Was in the computer this morning.

Unplugged everything and inspected the motherboard.  Did not see 
anything that looked like bad / leaking capacitors (or anything else).

Plugged everything back together and hit the power button.

It came on with the following bios message:

DQS training failed on previous boot.   Reverted to slower dram speed.

So I don't know what the problem was.  Will hope that it doesn't come back.

Patrick