[ale] OT: Diagnosing HW problem

[James P. Kinney III]

If the hardware is crap you shouldn't get hit with a restocking fee. It
should be a warranty return.

If wherever you got it from won't honor the warranty, take it on the
chin and take your business elsewhere.

At this point, return the entire pile of garbage and get something else.
The motherboard is bad and there may be other problems as well. If the
power supply fried it may have surged and trashed the board.

**note** There are big advantages to getting all the parts for a new
system from one supplier.

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 08:06 -0400, John Wells wrote:
> John Wells said:
> <snip/>
> 
> Left the machine on overnight (it booted up fine again).  This morning,
> the screen was black.  The hard drive led was on as if something was
> accessing the drive, but no variance...it just stayed on.
> 
> Rebooted, but can't even get it to post now.  The hard drive leds come on
> as if something is happening, but it doesn't send anything to screen. 
> Thought perhaps this might indicate a video card problem, but can't ping
> the box either so it doesn't seem to be booting up.  The video card
> problem wouldn't explain the freezes, anyway.
> 
> Any thoughts from you hardware junkies on how to isolate the problem to
> the motherboard?  I hate to be hit with a restocking fee if it turns out
> not to be the problem.
> 
> Thanks for the help, as always.
> 
> John
> 
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