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Golden tee stop working
Encryptedmind:
So I got another board its exactly the same board and replaced it and its doing the exact same thing. Why is it doing this? Is there anything else that is causing this to stop working? Please help me.
lilshawn:
did you power it on by shorting the aforementioned red jumper?
intel boards do typically power up for a second then go back to sleep again when you power them up and the bios is set to stay off when AC power is lost.
as i mentioned before, you will have to switch the yellow jumper and go into the bios and change that behavior to turn ON on AC loss so when you power up the cabinet, it fully turns on.
I don't recall exactly what the setting is called but it's like "AC back" or "on AC power loss" "AC back function" "restore on AC power loss" every manufacturer is a little different. nonetheless you want it set to ON
Encryptedmind:
I swapped the jumper to bios setting and then tried to jumper out the two red power terminals or whatever their called. And still nothing happens at all no fans spin or anything besides the green led light below the ram. Im really sorry im not good at this kind of stuff. I really appreciate your help though. What am I doing wrong. Damn computer.
lilshawn:
the green light shows you have 5VSB voltage, so the power supply seems to be working. is the CPU cooler fan plugged into CPU fan header on the motherboard? sometimes boards refuse to boot if it doesn't detect a fan "tach" signal on the CPU cooler header when it's powered on. try plugging another fan onto it...i've seen fan tach signals go dead before...but still blow air just fine.
you can try the typical testing methods... reseat ram... reseat CPU... the system expects the ram to be in a particular slot...in the case of the intel D915, it will be the blue slot closest to the CPU (CHANNEL A DIMM 0) when only using 1 stick...both blue slots when using 2 sticks. if you have 2 (or more) sticks...try just 1. try just the other... one failed stick will halt the entire system. make sure your power supply cables are properly inserted...and all of them too. they don't work very well if you miss the extra CPU power plugs.
failing all that try another power supply. it's possible the board is seeing low/high voltages in places where it shouldn't be, and preventing power on. the supply is nothing fancy, just a regular old computer power supply will do for testing.
it's odd that this board is doing the same thing as the old board. Did you recycle the CPU, Memory, etc from the old board into the replacement board? I typically buy boards with "new" ram and CPU's to avoid any potential issues. the failed board may have killed the CPU... if that's the case, you are just transferring issues from one board to the next. but let's not jump there yet. test out everything else first.
Encryptedmind:
So i looked around and someone told me to try and jumper out the green and black wires on the main power 24 pin plug. Everything started up except the monitor says no signal. I tried every port HDMI DVI and the vga but nothing. Is my video card not working now? Any way to check if my video card is bad or not? The fan is spinning on it though, have you heard of this before? If so Is there something else I need to do or should it just start up in the bios with the jumper on that? I appreciate your help from here on in.