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System as sig.
Machine runs flawlessly for days...weeks if needs be.
Recently when rebooting warm, it began "stalling"...before the system actually began any kind of boot sequence, it would sit, sometimes for seconds sometimes for minutes with the lights on the fans on, but blinking off about once a second....at the same time the status light on the 280 would twitch back to red. If left to settle down, it would boot again, and stay booted as long as required.
EDIT...the silly "bargraph" thing on the board blinked in time with this too.
The behaviour degraded so that it would not even answer the front panel power switch until it was good and ready.
On Monday it went down and hasn't come back yet.
While in this "limbo" state the light on my USB hub blinks on with about the same period as the whole system lights were blinking during boot attempts.
Three reasonable well educated chaps, myself...by Bsc holding brother and a mate who used to diagnose Nortel's internal hardware systems for a living, concluded it was a PSU issue.....ordered a new PSU...THEN found my PSU tester....and guess what....on the tester...there is nowt wrong with it...it all checks out. Plug the supply back into the motherboard and it's blinking hub and no powerup again.
I am now starting to think the mobo is a paperweight, this is very upsetting as it's not that old.
AND buying a new motherboard is not an option...I have a gig to play with this PC in a month and do not have time to start from scratch with that moronic windows thing..trying to make it work and setting it up for DAW operation. need either the same model or one so close that a couple of reboots will have it it up and running......OC no longer have ANY X48 boards and my model has apparently fallen off the planet rather than falling in price.
Help....I am panicking quite badly....any suggestions of what's wrong and how to fix would be appreciated as would someone saying "I've an old DQ6 that I used to keep the guinea pigs warm, £100 and she's yours....on the appropriate forum of course)
Machine runs flawlessly for days...weeks if needs be.
Recently when rebooting warm, it began "stalling"...before the system actually began any kind of boot sequence, it would sit, sometimes for seconds sometimes for minutes with the lights on the fans on, but blinking off about once a second....at the same time the status light on the 280 would twitch back to red. If left to settle down, it would boot again, and stay booted as long as required.
EDIT...the silly "bargraph" thing on the board blinked in time with this too.
The behaviour degraded so that it would not even answer the front panel power switch until it was good and ready.
On Monday it went down and hasn't come back yet.
While in this "limbo" state the light on my USB hub blinks on with about the same period as the whole system lights were blinking during boot attempts.
Three reasonable well educated chaps, myself...by Bsc holding brother and a mate who used to diagnose Nortel's internal hardware systems for a living, concluded it was a PSU issue.....ordered a new PSU...THEN found my PSU tester....and guess what....on the tester...there is nowt wrong with it...it all checks out. Plug the supply back into the motherboard and it's blinking hub and no powerup again.
I am now starting to think the mobo is a paperweight, this is very upsetting as it's not that old.
AND buying a new motherboard is not an option...I have a gig to play with this PC in a month and do not have time to start from scratch with that moronic windows thing..trying to make it work and setting it up for DAW operation. need either the same model or one so close that a couple of reboots will have it it up and running......OC no longer have ANY X48 boards and my model has apparently fallen off the planet rather than falling in price.
Help....I am panicking quite badly....any suggestions of what's wrong and how to fix would be appreciated as would someone saying "I've an old DQ6 that I used to keep the guinea pigs warm, £100 and she's yours....on the appropriate forum of course)