[mythtv-users] Hardware death - CPU vs motherboard?

Leen de Braal ldb at braha.nl
Sat Oct 24 12:52:22 UTC 2009


> I have a mythtv box that I have been using for almost 2 years now.  It is
> based on a Asus Pundit P1-AH2, with a Athlon X2 4000+ CPU.  Recently, when
> I
> got up one morning it was not running.  When I tried to reboot, it would
> freeze up during boot (generally somewhere shortly after POST).  I checked
> the BIOS setting and everything seemed fine.  To see if it was a OS
> problem,
> I tried to run an Ubuntu live CD.  This also froze during boot.  My first
> guess was a RAM problem (I couldn't get a RAM test to boot up enough to
> run
> though).  I got ahold of a different stick of RAM, and that didn't fix
> anything.  Somewhere in all this testing it went from freezing in boot
> (sometimes during post), to not even getting evidence of POST activity.
> Now, when I turn it on, the fans start but nothing else happens (no beeps,
> no video).  To try and diagnose the problem, I removed everything I could
> (except the CPU).  Without RAM, it get the beep code for bad/no RAM.  If I
> install the RAM, I get nothing (no beeps, no video, just fans turn on).
>
> My question is whether there is a way to determine if this is a CPU or
> motherboard problem?  I don't have access to a different CPU to test, and
> I
> don't want to buy a CPU and have it turn out to be a motherboard problem.
> If its a motherboard problem, I guess that means starting over with a
> effectively new system (the Asus is a barebones with most everything
> onboard).
>
> Any suggestions?  My wife and kids are missing DVR. :(

First try resetting the BIOS by taking out the battery, wait an hour and
put it back, then reboot. Had a Dell doing this to me, resetting bios
solved it.

>
> Thank for any help!
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