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SC420 braindead?
Because I was about to format my disks anyway I just powered down my SC420 by holding down the powerbutton. As far as I know, there is no way harming your hardware that way. Anyway, from the moment I did that, my server seems braindead. When I press the powerbutton the CPU fan speed is raising untill it's on its maximum, the hard disks spin up and the disk activity LED remains lit, but that's just it. I don't get video output or beep codes and even the diagnostic LEDs on the rear remain "dead". None of them is lit. The power LED is solid amber.
I already tried a few things: I did a BIOS reset (by moving the jumper aswell as taking the battery out and pressing the powerbutton several times (of course with the power cable disconnected)). That didn't work. After that, I removed all unnessessary hardware, such as the SCSI controller, Gbit ethernet controller, cd-rom drive, floppy drive and later on even the memory. I haven't made progress so far.
Why is my server so angry about me turning it off ...:smileytongue:
and how do I make it obey again?
Thanks for your input.
Message Edited by tvdien on 07-28-200609:23 AM
Message Edited by tvdien on 07-28-200609:50 AM
- Hi,
I already tested without memory and everything else except for CPU and PSU, but I did once more.
No matter what I do, with only the CPU and PSU connected there is nothing else than a spinning CPU fan and and an solid orange powerLED. The diagnostic LEDs on the rear still don't light up and there aren't any beeps. I also replaced the PSU and graphics card without results.
How can a server "die" up by turning it off?!Message Edited by tvdien on 07-29-200605:56 AM
buymeforabucky
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Posted July 31st, 2006 22:00
Sounds like a bad motherboard, its "unlikely" the processor went out. Most of the time the motherboard will die before the processor, from the vast majority of pcs ive worked on. However there have been a few I've seen take out both at the same time. Typically shutting off by the power button will leave your machine ok, sounds like yours could have been experiening other problems and by sheer luck it went out when you powered off by the power button. If you had a spare motherboard that would fit the processor that sounds like your next step. Or if you have dell support, have a tech come out for next day service.
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Posted July 28th, 2006 18:00