Intel support is freaking amazing from my experiences with them, so is EVGA and Thermaltake. but i haven't talked to thermaltake in some time. On Sun, 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 particular board has a > post test card built into it and the hex codes weren't even being display > ed. 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 booted back to Windows 7. Whoo whoo! > > After getting back to "normal", I also discovered that my DVD burner was > also blown 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 shipping and 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'm having serious hardware issues with my main dev box and it is now > completely down. > It's a fairly high end custom system (RAID, custom cooling, etc) that I > built myself and has been 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 that displays the boot hex codes on the board as it > goes thru POST. Nothing is being displayed. > I've tried pulling out the video card and disconnecting all the peripheral > s, but that didn't help. > > I'm thinking that the motherboard may be the problem. > 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 they are capable to > handle something that is not from a major manufacturer. > Is Fry's Electronics any good? > > Any help would be most appreciated. And the faster the better. :) > > Thanks for your help. > Peter > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen