RIP Router
Posted on November 03, 2002 @ 16:29 in General
This morning I woke up to find that my almost ancient IBM PC-330 had died. This little Pentium I @ 75 MHz desktop faithfully served me as a FreeSCO router/firewall for a long time. I'm pretty sure that I won't be able to resurrect it anymore, I fear the motherboard gave out and it won't even POST anymore. (Mine didn't look quite as good as the one in the picture though... she had a big hole where this one has a cd-rom drive, but the thickish panel you see on the left in the picture can slide to the right and that hid the hole very effectively, plus on mine the little lock on top had been knocked out, but she ran just fine.)
The symptoms are as follows: when I power up the computer the PSU fan spins, the power LED comes on as well, but the harddrive doesn't spin up and there is not even a beep, let alone POST info on the screen. This system has passive CPU cooling, so no CPU fans to spin up. When I take out all the cards, the memory and the CPU, and power up, it will beep once, spin up the harddisk and stay dead just the same. If I plug in the CPU (and I've tested with another CPU I had lying around as well) it doesn't even beep anymore and the same happens if I try adding memory (2 pairs, tried different combinations and different banks, but no ball).
If you have an idea about what I still could try, let me know... otherwise I will make sure she gets a decent burial after I've harvested most of her organs.
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could be a bad power supply.
Posted by eric on November 08, 2002 @ 04:43
Maybe it is. I thought about that, but I figured that if the PSU fans spin and the power LED comes on, it is supplying some power somehow. Anyway, I have one spare PSU lying around, so I'll see if that's the problem, but it might prove impossible to fit an ATX PSU into that little old IBM desktop case. We'll see...
Update: well, the motherboard and PSU have some strange non-ATX style connector. I could check if it is a standard AT connector or something IBM specific. In the last case I'm not going to bother with it anymore.
Posted by Frank on November 09, 2002 @ 12:59
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