hmmmm sounds like a cascade failure. The PSU died and it took both the MB and the CPU with it. I have seen that happen a lot of times. SOme of the cheaper end server MB's still suffer from the "capacitor plague" as do a lot of the mid and low end PSU's. There are two companies I would buy PSU's from: Antec or Pc Power and Cooling. They may be more expensive but they are certainly over engineered. As for MB's, sometimes doing a lot of legwork pays off. My rule of thumb is this: cheap is as cheap gets. -eric On May 4, 2014, at 4:54 PM, AZ Pete wrote: > Hi All, > > I thought I'd report back with the resolution to this mess. First of all, thanks to all the helpful suggestions. > > My power supply was in fact bad. My power supply was under warranty, but Seasonic doesn't offer advanced shipping so, I had to buy a replacement from Fry's during the shipping of my defective one back to Seasonic. > > When I installed the new power supply I bought from Fry's, this led me to discover that my Intel mother board was bad. This particularboard has a post test card built into it and the hex codesweren't even being displayed.The board was still under the 3 year warranty (by a couple months). I called Intel and they advanced shipped me a replacement. After I installed the new mother board, the onboard diagnostics indicated that the CPU was defective. I again called Intel since the CPU was also still under warranty. Again, Intel advanced shipped me a replacement CPU. After I installed the new CPU, the system bootedback to Windows 7. Whoo whoo! > > After getting back to "normal", I also discovered that my DVD burner was alsoblown out. No big deal since I hardly use it, but I have one on order from Newegg. > > I have to admit that Intel was very good at handling my warranty support and didn't give me the run around in any way. However, I did have to pay $25 to advance ship each part overnight, otherwise it would have taken several days for each item. > The Seasonic power supply, while a great product, had very poor customer service. I wouldn't recommend Seasonic power supplies due to their very poor customer support (no advanced shippingand email only support which took several days for them to respond to). > > It was a nightmare couple of weeks, but I'm back to where I was.I'm so glad I had absolutely no data loss(however, I do run my drives in a RAID 1 mirror and take daily and weekly backups). > > I've been in IT a long(!) time and the last time I saw this kind of cascade hardware failure on a PC was in the 486 days! > > Thanks! > Peter > > > On 4/22/2014 3:38 PM, Wayne Davis wrote: >> The advise of check the PSU is the easiest to test, especially if you have a spare. Bad PSU's can do all kinds of weird stuff. Test by using another PSU. >> >> ONE WORD OF CAUTION: SOME DELL PSU's are not wired the normal way. If your system is one of them, and you put in a standard PSU, you CAN destroy the PSU AND the MB. Be careful about that. Check online if you think you may have a DELL MB/PSU, >> >> >> On 04/21/2014 10:18 PM, AZ Pete wrote: >>> Hi All, >>> >>> I'mhaving serious hardware issues with my maindev box and it is now completely down. >>> It's a fairly high end custom system(RAID, customcooling,etc) that I built myself and hasbeen quite stable for several years. >>> The box powers up and the LEDs on the motherboard light. But it never reaches POST. >>> The M/B has an LED thatdisplays the boot hex codes on the board as it goes thru POST. Nothing isbeing displayed. >>> I've tried pulling out the video card and disconnecting all the peripherals,but that didn't help. >>> >>> I'm thinking that the motherboard maybe theproblem. >>> I'd like to take it in for service to have it properly diagnosed. Does anyone know of any good hardware repair places in town? >>> I was thinking of Data Doctors, but don't know if theyare capable to handle something that is notfrom a major manufacturer. >>> Is Fry's Electronics any good? >>> >>> Any help would be most appreciated. 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